{"product_id":"writing-without-words-9780822313779","title":"Writing Without Words","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Here are writing systems that are visual to their very core, free from the march of linguistic sounds. In showing us how to read such writing, these authors lead us across the boundaries of archaeology, linguistics, ethnology, history, and art history, and treat us to novel experiments along the way. Anyone who enjoys challenges to ordinary modes of textual interpretation and ordinary ideas about the nature of writing itself is in for quite a treat.\"—Dennis Tedlock, State University of New York, Buffalo\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge \/ Elizabeth Hill Boone 3\u003cbr\u003e Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya: A Comparative \/ Stephen Houston 27\u003cbr\u003e Aztec Pictorial Histories: Records without Words \/ Elizabeth Hill Boone 50\u003cbr\u003e Voicing the Painted Image: A Suggestion for Reading the Reverse of the Codez Cospi \/ Peter L. van der Loo 77\u003cbr\u003e The Text in the Body, the Body in the Text: The Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing \/ John Monaghan 87\u003cbr\u003e Hearing the Echoes of Verbal Art in Mixtec Writing \/ Mark B. King 102\u003cbr\u003e Mexican Codices, Maps and Lienzos as Social Contracts \/ John M. D. Pohl 137\u003cbr\u003e Primers for Memory: Cartographic Histories and Nahua Identity \/ Dana Leibsohn 161\u003cbr\u003e Representation in the Sixteenth Century and the Colonial Image of the Inca \/ Tom Cummins 188\u003cbr\u003e Signs and Their Transmission: The Question of the Book in the New World \/ Walter D. Mignolo 220\u003cbr\u003e Object and Alphabet: Andean Indians and Documents in the Colonial Period \/ Joanne Rappaport 271\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Situations \/ Walter D. Mignolo 292\u003cbr\u003e Index 313","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038661280087,"sku":"9780822313779","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822313779.jpg?v=1750940965","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-without-words-9780822313779","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}