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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, ..."






Die Welt der Maya(4th Edition)
Archäologische Schätze aus drei Jahrtausenden (German Edition)
by Herbert Wilhelmy, Juan A. Valdés, Nicolas P. Dunning, Robert Sharer, W. W. Wurster, Oscar Quintana, Stephen Houston, David Steuart, David Freidel, Arne Eggebrecht, Nikolai K. Grube, Eva : Eggebrecht, Elke Wagner, P. Von Zabern
Hardcover, 672 Pages, Published 1994 by P. Von Zabern
ISBN-13: 978-3-8053-1293-6, ISBN: 3-8053-1293-8

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Margaret Goldstein

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John Pohl

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