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Books by Prof Stephen Houston
  | | Fiery Pool(1st Edition) The Maya and the Mythic Sea (Peabody Essex Museum) by Daniel Finamore, Stephen D. Houston, Marc Zender Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16137-3, ISBN: 0-300-16137-9 |
 | | The Life Within(1st Edition) Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence by Prof Stephen Houston, Stephen D. Houston Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-19602-3, ISBN: 0-300-19602-4 "Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; xi, 195 pages: illustrations (some color); 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; A world that matters -- To become something else -- The life within -- A beauty that cannot die. Summary; For the Classic Maya, who flouris ..." |
 | | Re-Presenting the Past Archaeology Through Text and Image by Sheila Bonde, Prof Stephen Houston, Elaine A. Heath Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 2012 by Joukowsky Institute For Archaeology & The Ancient World ISBN-13: 978-1-935917-00-7, ISBN: 1-935917-00-5 "This volume brings together nine papers, six of which were presented at a symposium hosted at Brown University. Two papers explore the classical past and medieval visualizations." |
 | | The Disappearance of Writing Systems Perspectives on Literacy and Communication by John Baines, John Bennet, Prof Stephen Houston 397 Pages, Published 2008 by Equinox Publishing (Indonesia) ISBN-13: 978-1-84553-587-2, ISBN: 1-84553-587-1 "This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004." |
 | | 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, ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | The Disappearance of Writing Systems(Updated) Perspectives on Literacy and Communication by John Baines , John Bennet , Stephen Houston , Stephen D. Houston Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2008 by Equinox Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84553-013-6, ISBN: 1-84553-013-6 |
 | | Past Presented Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Joanne Pillsbury , Alain Schnapp , Stephen D. Houston , Scott R. Hutson , Barbara W. Fash , Bryan R. Just , Jason Weems , John W. Rick , Adam T. Sellen , Leonardo López Luján , Khristaan D. Villela , Byron Ellsworth Hamann , Lisa Trever Hardcover, 520 Pages, Published 2012 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-380-7, ISBN: 0-88402-380-X |