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Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes

Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes

Boone, Elizabeth Hill
Mignolo, Walter D.

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Indigenous Languages of the Americas

ISBN10: 082231388X
ISBN13: 9780822313885
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 16 1994
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.62 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
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.

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