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  | | Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past(Reprint) (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, George Kubler, Curtis M. Hinsley, Phyllis Mauch Messenger, Barbara Braun, Shelly Errington, Diane Fane, Enrique Florescano, Ian Graham, Holly Barnet-Sanchez, Elizabeth P. Benson, Michael D. Coe, Elizabeth A. Williams, Phyllis Mauch Williams Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2011 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-373-9, ISBN: 0-88402-373-7 "The history of Pre-Columbian collecting is a social and aesthetic history--of ideas, people and organizations, and objects. This richly illustrated volume examines these histories by considering the collection and display of Pre-Columbian objects in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Some of the thirteen essays locate the collecting process within its broader cultural setting in order to explain how and why such collections w ..." |
 | | Their Way of Writing Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Gary Urton, Reymundo Chapa, Carrie J. Brezine, Federico Navarrete, Margaret A. Jackson, Michel R. Oudijk, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Michael D. Coe, Frank Salomon, Javier Urcid, Tom Cummins, Víctor Falcón Huayta, Stephen D. Houston, Karl A. Taube, R. Tom Zuidema, Michel R. Salomon Hardcover, 422 Pages, Published 2011 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection Abridged, Audiobook, Box Set, Illustrated, Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-368-5, ISBN: 0-88402-368-0 "Writing and recording are key cultural activities that allow humans to communicate across time and space. Whereas Old World writing evolved into the alphabetic system that is now employed around the world, the indigenous peoples in the Americas autonomously developed alternative systems that conveyed knowledge in a tangible medium. New World systems range from the hieroglyphic script of the Maya, to the figural and iconic pictographies ..." |
 | | A Pre-Columbian World (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Studies) by Jeffrey Quilter, Mary Miller, Contributor-Anna Blume, Contributor-Enrique Florescano, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Warren R. Deboer, Tom D. Dillehay, Robert L. Hall, Mary W. Helms, Simon Martin, Ramiro Matos, Polly Schaafsma, Karl A. Taube, Contributor-Warren R.... Hardcover, 468 Pages, Published 2006 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-315-9, ISBN: 0-88402-315-X " The articles in this book conceptualize the ancient New World through new and varied approaches, from iconography to the history of anthropology. The many essays in this volume explore the vast vista of the Pre-Columbian world, including representations of history, memory, and knowledge in Andean visual imagery and Pre-Columbian narrative, the ideology of rain making, and Maya beliefs about animal transformations. " |
 | | Aztec Imperial Strategies(1st Edition) (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Frances F. Berdan, Richard E. Blanton, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Michael E. Smith, Emily Umberger, Mary G. Hodge, Mary G. Hodges, Berdan . Et Al, And Emily Umberger. Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1996 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-211-4, ISBN: 0-88402-211-0 "But it will be difficult to demonstrate that agricultural intensification can be connected to tribute flows and changes in market prices as proposed by Brumfiel, a point she herself has recently made (Brumfiel 1987a). If large quantities of tribute goods circulated to the general population, depressing prices for these commodities, the argument would be strengthened, but Sanders (1980) disputes this (cf. Brumfiel 1987a). The hypoth ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Descendants of Aztec Pictography The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Hardback) by Elizabeth Hill Boone Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-2167-6, ISBN: 1-4773-2167-5 "Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience." |
 | | Painted Words Nahua Catholicism, Politics, and Memory in the Atzaqualco Pictorial Catechism (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, David Eduardo Tavárez, Louise M. Burkhart Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2017 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-418-7, ISBN: 0-88402-418-0 "Painted Words presents a facsimile, decipherment, and analysis of a seventeenth-century pictographic catechism from colonial Mexico, preserved as Fonds Mexicain 399 at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Works in this genre present the Catholic catechism in pictures that were read sign by sign as aids to memorization and oral performance. They have long been understood as a product of the experimental techniques of early evangelizatio ..." |
 | | Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate by Elizabeth Hill Boone 338 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-75656-4, ISBN: 0-292-75656-9 "Serna, Jacinto de la 1953 Manual de ministros de indios para el conocimiento de sus idolatrias, y extirpacion de ellas. In Tratado de las idolatrias, supersticiones, dioses, ritos, hechicerias y otras costumbres gentilicas de las razas aborigines de Mexico, edited by Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, vol. 1, pp. 40—368. 2nd ed. Mexico City: Ediciones Fuente Cultural. Siméon, Remi 1981 Diccionario de la lengua nahuatl o mexicana. Trans ..." |
 | | Stories in Red and Black Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs by Elizabeth Hill Boone Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0-292-79184-8, ISBN: 0-292-79184-4 |
 | | Stories in Red and Black Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs by Elizabeth Hill Boone 312 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-78312-6, ISBN: 0-292-78312-4 "Illustrations. Figures. i . Formula for calculating the variance of a sample, 31 2. Instructions for operating a hot air dryer, 31 3. Pictorial representations and ideograms related to conquest and war, 33 4. Pictorial representations of material things, 34 5. Ideograms for "day" and a painter painting a div- inatory almanac, 3s 6. Name sign of ... Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, by Bill Watterson, 71 37. Codex Selden 6, 73 38. Code ..." |
 | | 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 "Winner, Arvey Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2001 Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, Art Libraries Society of North America, 2001 The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as val ..." |
 | | Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture (Hardcover)) by Elizabeth Hill Boone Hardcover, 338 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71263-8, ISBN: 0-292-71263-4 "In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life’s activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which t ..." |
 | | The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820(1st Edition) (Philadelphia Museum of Art) by Joseph J. Rishel, Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Clara Bargellini, Dilys E. Blum, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Marcus B. Burke, Mitchell A. Codding, Alfonso Ortiz Crespo, Suzanne L. Stratton Hardcover, 568 Pages, Published 2006 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12003-5, ISBN: 0-300-12003-6 "A magnificent survey of the rich and varied arts in Latin America from 1492 to the end of the colonial era Essays by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Clara Bargellini, Dilys E. Blum, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Marcus Burke, Mitchell A. Codding, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Cristina Esteras Martín, M. Concepción García Sáiz, Ilona Katzew, Adrian Locke, Gridley McKim-Smith, Alfonso Ortiz Crespo, Jorge F. Rivas P., Nuno Senos, Edward J. Sullivan, and Marjorie ..." |
 | | Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern(1st Edition) Readings for a New Century (Studies in the History of Art Series) by Elizabeth Cropper, Svetlana Alpers, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Philippe Bordes, Betsy M. Bryan, C. Jean Campbell, Joseph Connors, Charles Dempsey, Marian H. Feldman, Finbarr Barry Flood Hardcover, 424 Pages, Published 2009 by Ngw-Stud Hist Art ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12162-9, ISBN: 0-300-12162-8 "This spirited and challenging book presents dialogues between eminent art historians on current topics and dilemmas in the field. The essays consider world art of all periods, covering ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, preconquest Mexico and Peru, Islam, China, Japan, Renaissance and baroque Italy, 18th- and 19th-century France, and the United States in the 20th century and today. The authors propose new readings as they challenge traditional ..." |
 | | Stories in Red and Black(1st Edition) Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs by Elizabeth Hill Boone Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70876-1, ISBN: 0-292-70876-9 "Winner, Arvey Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2001Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, Art Libraries Society of North America, 2001The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid ..." |
 | | THE AZTEC WORLD(1st Edition) (Exploring the Ancient World) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Jeremy A. Sabloff Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1995 by Smithsonian ISBN-13: 978-0-89599-040-2, ISBN: 0-89599-040-7 ""Well-illustrated overview of the Aztec empire and society's development drawn from ethnohistoric sources and excavations at major imperial centers. Basic introduction for nonspecialists"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57." |
 | | Moctezuma's Mexico(1st Edition) Visions of the Aztec World by David Carrasco, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Scott Sessions, James Corbridge, Anthony F. Aveni, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Eduardo Matos Mocteczuma Hardcover, 188 Pages, Published 1992 by Univ Pr Of Colorado ISBN-13: 978-0-87081-263-7, ISBN: 0-87081-263-7 "Updated with a new chapter by Davíd Carrasco describing how the Aztec world has been re-imagined by modern Mexican American communities and Chicano scholars, Moctezuma’s Mexico is a lavishly illustrated volume that provides an in-depth historical profile of the Aztec empire on the eve of its fateful encounter with the Europeans. Beginning with an exploration of Aztec history and cosmovision, the authors and two other prominent scholars- ..." |
 | | Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society) by Elizabeth Hill Boone Paperback, 107 Pages, Published 1989 by Amer Philosophical Society ISBN-13: 978-0-87169-792-9, ISBN: 0-87169-792-0 |
 | | The Book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans The Codex Magliabechiano and the Lost Prototype of the Magliabechiano Group. by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Zelia Nuttall Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 1984 by Univ Of California Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-520-04520-0, ISBN: 0-520-04520-3 |
 | | Falsifications and misreconstructions of pre-Columbian art a conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 14th and 15th, 1978 by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Dumbarton Oaks 142 Pages, Published 1982 ISBN-13: 978-0-08-802111-1, ISBN: 0-08-802111-4 |
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