Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies In Mesoamerica And The Andes,New Boursier Readers Who Wish To Use

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Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies In Mesoamerica And The Andes,New Boursier Readers Who Wish To UseThe 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 Precolumbian And Early Colonial Mesoamerican Cultures, The Authors Focus