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Books by Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone






Writing Without Words(2nd Edition)
Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
by Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter D. Mignolo, Prof Stephen Houston, Contributor-Tom Cummins, Contributor-John Pohl, Mark B. King, Contributor-Stephen Houston, Contributor-Elizabeth Boone, Contributor-Mark King
Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 1994 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1388-5, ISBN: 0-8223-1388-X

"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, th ..."






Aztec Empire, The
by Felipe Solis Olguin, Roberto Velasco Alonso, Dr. Frances Berdan, Dr. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Dr. Anne Cyphers, Dr. Richard Diehl, Dr. Linda Manzanilla, Dr. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Dr. William Sanders, Dr. Guilliem Olivier, Dr. Miguel Leon Portilla, Dr. Michael Smith, Dr. Carl Taube, Richard Townsend, Dr. Perla Valle, Dr. Phil Weigand, Eduado Matos Moctezuma
Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2004 by Guggenheim Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-89207-321-4, ISBN: 0-89207-321-7

"The Aztecs were the Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. A nomadic culture, the Aztecs eventually settled on several small islands in Lake Texcoco where, in 1325, they founded the town of Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. Fearless warriors and pragmatic builders, the Aztecs created an empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americ ..."






The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec(1st Edition)
A Painted History from the Northern Mixteca
by Arni Brownstone, Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone, Nicholas Johnson, Bas Van Doesburg
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4630-0, ISBN: 0-8061-4630-3

"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 ..."






Writing Without Words
Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
by Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter D. Mignolo, Prof Stephen Houston, Margaret J. Goldstein, Mark B. King, John Pohl, Tom Cummins
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1994 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1377-9, ISBN: 0-8223-1377-4

"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 Lienzo of Tlapiltepec
A Painted History from the Northern Mixteca
by Arni Brownstone, Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone, Nicholas Johnson, Bas Van Doesburg
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4629-4, ISBN: 0-8061-4629-X

"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 ..."






Stories in Red and Black(1st Edition)
Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs
by Elizabeth Hill Boone
Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71989-7, ISBN: 0-292-71989-2

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