Writing without words
Subtitle: alternative literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
By: Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter D. Mignolo, editors.
Contributors: Boone, Elizabeth Hill.; Mignolo, Walter.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Indians -- Languages -- Writing; Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Writing; Indian art; Writing -- History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.