Based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium Scripts, Signs, and Notational Systems in Pre-Columbian America held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on October 11-12, 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Their way of writing : scripts, signs and pictographies in Pre-Columbian America / Gary Urton -- The Cold War and the Maya decipherment / Michael D. Coe -- All things must change : Maya writing over time and space / Stephen D. Houston -- The flowering glyphs : animation in Cotzumalhuapa writing / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos -- Teotihuacan and the development of writing in early classic central Mexico / Karl Taube -- The written surface as a clutural code : a comparative perspective of scribal traditions from southwestern Mesoamerica / Javier Urcid -- Elaboration and abbreviation in Mexican pictorial manuscripts : their use in literary themes / Michel R. Oudijk -- Writing, images and time-space in Aztec monuments and books / Federico Navarrete -- Rupture and unions : graphic complexity and hybridity in sixteenth-century Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Moche as visual notation : semasiographic elements in Moche ceramic imagery / Margaret A. Jackson -- Chuquibamba textiles and their interacting systems of notation : the case of multiple exact calendars / R. Tom Zuidema -- Tocapu : what is it, what does it do, and why is it not a knot? / Thomas B.F. Cummins -- Khipu typologies / Gary Urton and Carrie J. Brezine -- Khipu from colony to republic : the Rapaz patrimony / Frank Salomon, Carrie J. Brezine, Reymundo Chapa and Victor FalcoĢn Huayta -- The cultural category of scripts, signs, and pictographies / Elizabeth Hill Boone.
Series:
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
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