Their way of writing : scripts, signs, and pictographies in Pre-Columbian America /
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Washington, D.C. :
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
[2011]
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| Series: | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Joanne Pillsbury
- Their way of writing : scripts, signs, and pictographies in pre-Columbian America / Gary Urton
- The Cold War and the Maya decipherment / Michael D. Coe
- All things must change : Maya writing over time and space / Stephen D. Houston
- The flowering glyphs : animation in Cotzumalhuapa writing / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
- Teotihuacan and the development of writing in early classic central Mexico / Karl Taube
- The written surface as a cultural code : a comparative perspective of scribal traditions from southwestern Mesoamerica / Javier Urcid
- Elaboration and abbreviation in Mexican pictorial manuscripts : their use in literary themes / Michel R. Oudijk
- Writing, images, and time-space in Aztec monuments and books / Federico Navarrete
- Ruptures and unions : graphic complexity and hybridity in sixteenth-century Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Moche as visual notation : semasiographic elements in Moche ceramic imagery / Margaret A. Jackson
- Chuquibamba textiles and their interacting systems of notation : the case of multiple exact calendars / R. Tom Zuidema
- Tocapu : what is it, what does it do, and why is it not a knot? / Thomas B.F. Cummins
- Khipu typologies / Gary Urton, Carrie J. Brezine
- Khipu from colony to republic : the Rapaz patrimony / Frank Salomon, Carrie J. Brezine, Reymundo Chapa, Víctor Falcón Huayta
- The cultural category of scripts, signs, and pictographies / Elizabeth Hill Boone.