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Writing Without Words - Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes (Hardcover)
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Writing Without Words - Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes (Hardcover)
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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
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