Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge 1
5. Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya: A Comparative Perspective 27
6. Aztec Pictorial Histories: Records without Words 50
7. Voicing the Painted Image: A Suggestion for Reading the Reverse of the Codex Cospi 77
8. The Text in the Body, the Body in the Text: The Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing 87
9. Hearing the Echoes of Verbal Art in Mixtec Writing 102
10. Mexican Codices, Maps, and Lienzos as Social Contracts 137
11. Primers for Memory: Cartographic Histories and Nahua Identity 161
12. Representation in the Sixteenth Century and the Colonial Image of the Inca 188
13. Signs and Their Transmission: The Question of the Book in the New World 220
14. Object and Alphabet: Andean Indians and Documents in the Colonial Period 271
15. Afterword: Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Situations 292
16. Index 315
17. Contributors 323