Elizabeth Hill Boone: Writing Without Words

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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 notions of literacy and dominant views of art and literature, history and geography. Asking how knowledge was encoded and preserved in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Mesoamerican cultures, the authors focus on systems of writing that did not strive to represent speech. Their work reveals the complicity of ideology in the history of literacy, and offers new insight into the history of writing.
The contributors--who include art historians, anthropologists, and literary theorists--examine the ways in which ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples conveyed meaning through hieroglyphic, pictorial, and coded systems, systems inseparable from the ideologies they were developed to serve. We see, then, how these systems changed with the European invasion, and how uniquely colonial writing systems came to embody the post-conquest American ideologies. The authors also explore the role of these early systems in religious discourse and their relation to later colonial writing.
Bringing the insights from Mesoamerica and the Andes to bear on a fundamental exchange among art history, literary theory, semiotics, and anthropology, the volume reveals the power contained in the medium of writing.
Contributors. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tom Cummins, Stephen Houston, Mark B. King, Dana Leibsohn, Walter D. Mignolo, John Monaghan, John M. D. Pohl, Joanne Rappaport, Peter van der Loo

Über den Autor

Elizabeth Hill Boone is Director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.

Walter D. Mignolo is Professor in the Department of Romance Studies and the Program in Literature at Duke University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge / Elizabeth Hill Boone 3

Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya: A Comparative / Stephen Houston 27

Aztec Pictorial Histories: Records without Words / Elizabeth Hill Boone 50

Voicing the Painted Image: A Suggestion for Reading the Reverse of the Codez Cospi / Peter L. van der Loo 77

The Text in the Body, the Body in the Text: The Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing / John Monaghan 87

Hearing the Echoes of Verbal Art in Mixtec Writing / Mark B. King 102

Mexican Codices, Maps and Lienzos as Social Contracts / John M. D. Pohl 137

Primers for Memory: Cartographic Histories and Nahua Identity / Dana Leibsohn 161

Representation in the Sixteenth Century and the Colonial Image of the Inca / Tom Cummins 188

Signs and Their Transmission: The Question of the Book in the New World / Walter D. Mignolo 220

Object and Alphabet: Andean Indians and Documents in the Colonial Period / Joanne Rappaport 271

Afterword: Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Situations / Walter D. Mignolo 292

Index 313

Erscheinungsjahr:	1994
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822313885
ISBN-10:	082231388X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Elizabeth Hill Boone Walter D. Mignolo
Redaktion:	Boone, Elizabeth Hill Mignolo, Walter D
Auflage:	Second edition
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Elizabeth Hill Boone (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.05.1994
Gewicht:	0,485 kg

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