Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables xv
5. Preface and Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems 3
7. Section 1 On Semasiographs and Semasiography
8. 1 On the Classification of Graphs in Central Mexican Pictorial Writing 25
9. 2 The System of Graphic Communication in the Central Mexican Divinatory Codices from the Functional Perspective 41
10. Section 2 Metaphor, Orality, and Space
11. 3 The “Law of the Series” 95
12. 4 Sacrifice in the Codex Borgia 123
13. 5 Clothes with Metaphorical Names and the Representation of Metaphors in the Costumes of the Aztec Gods 154
14. 6 What Lies Beneath 180
15. 7 Traces of Orality in the Codex Xolotl 204
16. Section 3 Reconnoitering the Periphery
17. 8 On the Iconic Nature of Tocapus and Other Framed Motif Units 233
18. 9 Geometric Motifs in Rock Art as a System of Visual Communication 257
19. 10 Status Markers in Moche Iconography 274
20. Section 4 Going into Detail
21. 11 Hieroglyphs of Virtue and Vice 299
22. 12 An Approach to Anthroponymic Glyphs in Nahuatl Writing Contained in El Libro de los Tributos de San Pablo Teocaltitlan or the Codex Valeriano 312
23. 13 The Making of Academic Myth 340
24. Afterword 376
25. About the Authors 381
26. Index 383