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Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the full writing of recorded speech. <i>Writing without Words</i> challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread n, Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes has a rating of 5 stars
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Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the full writing of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread n, Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
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  • Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
  • Written by author Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • Published by Duke University Press, January 1994
  • The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread n
  • The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it wi
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Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge3
Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya: A Comparative Perspective27
Aztec Pictorial Histories: Records without Words50
Voicing the Painted Image: A Suggestion for Reading the Reverse of the Codex Cospi77
The Text in the Body, the Body in the Text: The Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing87
Hearing the Echoes of Verbal Art in Mixtec Writing102
Mexican Codices, Maps, and Lienzos as Social Contracts137
Primers for Memory: Cartographic Histories and Nahua Identity161
Representation in the Sixteenth Century and the Colonial Image of the Inca188
Signs and Their Transmission: The Question of the Book in the New World220
Object and Alphabet: Andean Indians and Documents in the Colonial Period271
Afterword: Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Situations292
Index313


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