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Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Palaeography
Winner of the 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion:
Historical Studies In her groundbreaking investigation from the
perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores
the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of
Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals
Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec
cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the
writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua
sense of reality. Laack transcends the concept of "sacred
scripture" traditionally employed in religions studies in order to
reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec
pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her
study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic
systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our
understanding of human recorded visual communication. This book
will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in
the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient
civilizations of the Americas. "This excellent book, written with
intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant,
multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that
made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational
ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system." - David
Carrasco, Harvard University
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