alternative literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
Erschienen:
1994
Verlag:
Duke University Press, Durham
"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...
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"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, volume 57
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
