Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
&quot;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.&quot;&mdash;Dennis Tedlock, State University of New York, Buffalo