Mikulska, Katarzyna, editorOffner, Jerome A., editorUniversity Press of Colorado, publisher2020-03-162020-03-162019https://hdl.handle.net/10217/201422Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 / Danièle Dehouve -- Sacrifice in the Codex Borgia: examples from an inventory of phrases / Angélica 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 José Batalla Rosado and Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio -- The making of academic myth / Michel R. Oudijk.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- WritingIndians of Central America -- Languages -- WritingIndians of South America -- Andes Region -- Languages -- WritingPicture-writing -- MexicoPicture-writing -- Central AmericaPicture-writing -- Andes RegionVisual communication -- MexicoVisual communication -- Central AmericaVisual communication -- Andes RegionTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.