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Painted Words - Nahua Catholicism, Politics, and Memory in the Atzaqualco Pictorial Catechism (Paperback): Elizabeth Hill... Painted Words - Nahua Catholicism, Politics, and Memory in the Atzaqualco Pictorial Catechism (Paperback)
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Louise M Burkhart, David Tavarez
R1,592 R1,443 Discovery Miles 14 430 Save R149 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Their Way of Writing - Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America (Hardcover): Elizabeth Hill Boone, Margaret... Their Way of Writing - Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Margaret A. Jackson, Federico Navarrete, Michel R. Oudijk, Michel R. Salomon, …
R1,536 R1,381 Discovery Miles 13 810 Save R155 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Writing and recording are key cultural activities that allow humans to communicate across time and space. Whereas Old World writing evolved into the alphabetic system that is now employed around the world, the indigenous peoples in the Americas autonomously developed alternative systems that conveyed knowledge in a tangible medium. New World systems range from the hieroglyphic script of the Maya, to the figural and iconic pictographies of the Aztecs, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs in Mexico and the Moche in Peru, to the abstract knotted khipus of the Andes. Like Old World writing, these systems represented a cultural category that was fundamental to the workings of their societies, one that was heavily impregnated with cultural value.

The fifteen contributors to "Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America" consider substantive and theoretical issues concerning writing and signing systems in the ancient Americas. They present the latest thinking about these graphic and tactile systems of communication. Their variety of perspectives and their advances in decipherment and understanding constitute a major contribution not only to our understanding of Pre-Columbian and indigenous American cultures but also to our comparative and global understanding of writing and literacy.

Writing Without Words - Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes (Paperback, Second): Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter... Writing Without Words - Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes (Paperback, Second)
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter D. Mignolo
R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This interdisciplinary collection of articles focuses on pictorial and iconic systems of the Maya, Mixtec, Aztec, and Inca, and the social contexts of writing during the colonial period, to challenge western conceptualizations of art, writing and literacy. The final papers offer stimulating discussions of interactions between European and indigenous writing systems"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past (Paperback): Elizabeth Hill Boone, Curtis M. Hinsley, George Kubler, Phyllis Mauch Messenger,... Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past (Paperback)
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Curtis M. Hinsley, George Kubler, Phyllis Mauch Messenger, Phyllis Mauch Williams
R936 R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Save R72 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The history of Pre-Columbian collecting is a social and aesthetic history--of ideas, people and organizations, and objects. This richly illustrated volume examines these histories by considering the collection and display of Pre-Columbian objects in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Some of the thirteen essays locate the collecting process within its broader cultural setting in order to explain how and why such collections were formed, while others consider how collections have served as documents of culture within the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology, and as objects of fine art or aesthetic statements within the art and art historical worlds. Nearly all contemplate how such collections have been used as active signifiers of political, economic, and cultural power. The thirteen essays were originally presented at a symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Pre-Columbian Collection at Dumbarton Oaks. They continue to be groundbreaking contributions to the histories of collecting and Pre-Columbian art.

The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec - A  Painted History from the Northern Mixteca (Paperback): Arni Brownstone The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec - A Painted History from the Northern Mixteca (Paperback)
Arni Brownstone; Contributions by Nicholas Johnson, Bas Van Doesburg; Foreword by Elizabeth Hill Boone
R1,231 R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Save R489 (40%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For centuries, indigenous rulers of Mesoamerica commissioned elaborate pictorial histories to maintain their claims to power, land, and privilege - a practice they continued under Spanish authority after the conquest. The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec is one such history. An intricate pictographic document on cotton cloth measuring 156 by 66.5 inches, the lienzo was produced by an Indian painter-scribe of great skill during the sixteenth century in the northern Mixteca, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It depicts events dating from the eleventh century to the early years of the Spanish colony. Housed since 1919 in the Royal Ontario Museum of Canada, the lienzo is a work of such complexity and reach that few scholars possess the tools to understand its message and context. The contributors to this volume are among that select few. In four chapters, front matter, and two appendices accompanied by detailed, full-color illustrations, scholars Arni Brownstone, Nicholas Johnson, Bas van Doesburg, Eckehard Dolinski, Michael Swanton, and Elizabeth Hill Boone describe what a lienzo is and how it was made. They also explain the particular origin, format, and content of the Lienzo of Tlapiltepec - as well as its place within the larger world of Mexican painted history. The contributors furthermore explore the artistry and visual experience of the work. A final essay documents past illustrations of the lienzo, including the one rendered for this book, which employed innovative processes to recover long faded colors. Unique in its detail, scope, and depth, this is the first volume to offer a full description and analysis of the Lienzo of Tlapiltepec and to grant widespread access to this extraordinary repository of history.

Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate (Hardcover): Elizabeth Hill Boone Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Hill Boone
R1,418 Discovery Miles 14 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the cycles of time and meaning they encode.

In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy-- the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmicnarrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.

Descendants of Aztec Pictography - The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Hardcover): Elizabeth Hill Boone Descendants of Aztec Pictography - The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Hill Boone
R1,522 R1,427 Discovery Miles 14 270 Save R95 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but their content came from the native intellectuals, painters, and writers who helped to create them. Examining the nine major surviving texts, preeminent Latin American art historian Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how indigenous artists and writers documented their ancestral culture. Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience. For Spanish authorities, she shows, the books revealed Aztec ideology and practice, while for the indigenous community, they preserved venerated ways of pictorial expression as well as rhetorical and linguistic features of ancient discourses. The first comparative analysis of these encyclopedias, Descendants of Aztec Pictography analyzes how the painted compilations embraced artistic traditions from both sides of the Atlantic.

Stories in Red and Black - Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs (Paperback): Elizabeth Hill Boone Stories in Red and Black - Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs (Paperback)
Elizabeth Hill Boone
R977 R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Save R77 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories in long oral narratives and in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth, which served to keep the fundamental features of the stories pure. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, for the indigenous rulers and important native families still needed documents to support their respective positions, and the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Out of the wealth of documentation that once existed, five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today.

This extensively and beautifully illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces readers to the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the Mixtec screenfolds and lienzos.

Boone focuses her analysis on the kinds of stories told in the histories and on how the manuscripts work pictorially to encode, organize, and preserve these narratives. This twofold investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans understood and presented themselves and how they used pictographic history for political an social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems developed, like mathematical or musical notation, to convey meaning directly and without a detour through speech, creating a broadly understood corpus of visual conventions that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries.

This book will be important readingnot only for scholars of ancient Mexico, but also for avocational students of Pre-Columbian history who want to learn to read the Aztec and Mixtec codices and learn their stories and legends. Likewise, it offers food for thought to scholars in a variety of disciplines who think comparatively about histories and/or graphic systems of communication.

Writing Without Words - Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes (Hardcover): Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter D. Mignolo Writing Without Words - Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter D. Mignolo
R2,369 Discovery Miles 23 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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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