ISBN:
082231388X
,
0822313774
,
9780822313885
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 324 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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24 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Writing without words
Keywords:
Indian art
;
Indians of Mexico Languages
;
Writing
;
Writing History
;
Indians Languages
;
Writing
;
History (South and Central America)
;
Indians ; Languages ; Writing
;
Indians of Mexico ; Languages ; Writing
;
Indian art
;
Writing ; History
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
;
Mesoamerika
;
Anden
;
Hieroglyphenschrift
;
Knotenschrift
;
Lateinamerika
;
Indianer
;
Sprache
;
Schreiben
;
Mexiko
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"This interdisciplinary collection of articles focuses on pictorial and iconic systems of the Maya, Mixtec, Aztec, and Inca, and the social contexts of writing during the colonial period, to challenge western conceptualizations of art, writing and literacy. The final papers offer stimulating discussions of interactions between European and indigenous writing systems"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : writing and recording knowledge / Elizabeth Hill BooneLiteracy among the Pre-Columbian Maya : a comparative perspective / Stephen Houston -- Aztec pictorial histories : records without words / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Voicing the painted image : a suggestion for reading the reverse of the Codex Cospi / Peter L. van der Loo -- The text in the body, the body in the text : the embodied sign in Mixtec writing / John Monaghan -- Hearing the echoes of verbal art in Mixtec writing / Mark B. King -- Mexican codices, maps, and lienzos as social contracts / John M.D. Pohl -- Primers for memory : cartographic histories and Nahua identity / Dana Leibsohn -- Representation in the sixteenth century and the colonial image of the Inca / Tom Cummins -- Signs and their transmission : the question of the book in the New World / Walter D. Mignolo -- Object and alphabet : Andean Indians and documents in the colonial period / Joanne Rappaport -- Afterword : writing and recorded knowledge in colonial and postcolonial situations / Walter D. Mignolo.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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