Writing without words : alternative literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter D. Mignolo, editors

• Author: Boone, Elizabeth Hill;
  Mignolo, Walter
• Subjects: Art précolombien;
  Écriture pictographique indienne d'Amérique;
  Manuscrits mexicains précolombiens;
  Langues indiennes d'Amérique;
  Écriture mixtèque;
  Écriture maya;
  Écriture nahuatl;
  Indians -- Languages -- Writing;
  Indians of Mexico -- Writing;
  Indian art;
  Writing -- History
• Description: Notes bibliogr. Index.
  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
  
• Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994
  
• Creation Date: 1994
  
• Format: viii-322 p. : ill., couv. ill. ; 24 cm
  
• Language: English