03946oam 22006614a 450 991098467960332120251116172926.01-60732-935-2(CKB)4100000010079649(OCoLC)1142399968(MdBmJHUP)muse75764(MiAaPQ)EBC5990251(Perlego)2032719(EXLCZ)99410000001007964920190416d2018 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIndigenous Graphic Communication SystemsA Theoretical Approach /edited by Katarzyna Mikulska, Jerome A. OffnerLouisville :University Press of Colorado,[2018]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2020©[2018]1 online resource1-64642-832-3 1-60732-876-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : indigenous graphic communication systems : a theoretical approach /Katarzyna Mikulska --On the classification of graphs in Central Mexican pictorial writing /David Charles Wright-Carr --The system of graphic communication in the Central Mexican divinatory codices from the functional perspective /Katarzyna Mikulska --"The "law of the series" : a proposal for the decipherment of Aztec ritual language /Daniele Dehouve --Sacrifice in the Codex Borgia : examples from an inventory of phrases /Angelica Baena Ramírez --Clothes with metaphorical names and the representation of metaphors in the costumes of the Mexican gods /Loïc Vauzelle --What lies beneath : generating Mesoamerican media surfaces /Jerome A. Offner --Traces of orality in the Codex Xolotl /Katarzyna Szoblik --On the iconic nature of Tocapus and other framed motif units /Christiane Clados --Geometric motifs in rock art as a system of visual communication /Stanisław Iwaniszewski --Status markers in Moche iconography /Janusz Z. Wołoszyn --Hieroglyphs of virtue and vice : on the interplay of writing and iconography /Gordon Whittaker --An approach to anthroponymic glyphs in Nahuatl writing contained in El Libro de los Tributos de San Pablo Teocaltitlan or the Codex Valeriano /Juan Jose Batalla Rosado and Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio --The making of academic myth /Michel R. Oudijk."Challenges Western academic views on what writing is and explores how these concepts can be improved by analyzing the sophisticated graphic communication systems found in Central Mesoamerica and Andean South America. Exploring and rejecting the Western notion that writing exists only to record the chain of speech"--Provided by publisher.Visual communicationAndes RegionVisual communicationCentral AmericaVisual communicationMexicoPicture-writingAndes RegionPicture-writingCentral AmericaPicture-writingMexicoIndians of South AmericaAndes RegionLanguagesWritingIndians of Central AmericaLanguagesWritingIndians of MexicoLanguagesWritingElectronic books. Visual communicationVisual communicationVisual communicationPicture-writingPicture-writingPicture-writingIndians of South AmericaLanguagesWriting.Indians of Central AmericaLanguagesWriting.Indians of MexicoLanguagesWriting.972/.01Mikulska KatarzynaOffner Jerome A.MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910984679603321Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems4335001UNINA