Writing Without Words

by Boone, Elizabeth Hill; Mignolo, Walter D.; Van Der Loo, Peter L. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822313885
• ISBN10: 082231388X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This is an exceptionally comprehensive and informative work on Pre-Columbian and early colonial recording systems in Mesoamerica and the Andes. The various contributions focus on a range of hieroglyphic, logographic, and mnemonic recording systems, and there are also excellent discussions of the effects of the introduction of European writing on native recording systems. The articles touching on this latter topic all make clear the complexity of links, and the subtle interplay of changes, between record-keeping and ideology. An important and challenging book."--Gary Urton, Colgate University

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge

Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya: A Comparative

Aztec Pictorial Histories: Records without Words

Voicing the Painted Image: A Suggestion for Reading the Reverse of the Codez Cospi

The Text in the Body, the Body in the Text: The Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing

Hearing the Echoes of Verbal Art in Mixtec Writing

Mexican Codices, Maps and Lienzos as Social Contracts

Primers for Memory: Cartographic Histories and Nahua Identity

Representation in the Sixteenth Century and the Colonial Image of the Inca

Signs and Their Transmission: The Question of the Book in the New World

Object and Alphabet: Andean Indians and Documents in the Colonial Period

Afterword: Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Situations

Index

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