Format:
1 online resource (viii, 322 pages)
ISBN:
9780822379263
,
0822379260
Content:
Introduction : writing and recording knowledge / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Literacy 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. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 082231388X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Writing without words Durham [u.a.] : Duke Univ. Press, 1994 ISBN 082231388X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822313774
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822313885
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Romance Studies
,
Ethnology
,
General works
Keywords:
Mesoamerika
;
Anden
;
Hieroglyphenschrift
;
Knotenschrift
;
Lateinamerika
;
Indianer
;
Sprache
;
Schreiben
;
Mexiko
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte
;
Geschichte
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1215/9780822379263
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822379263
Author information:
Mignolo, Walter D. 1941-
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