Their Way of Writing - Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-columbian America

Klappentext "Their Way of Writing" considers substantive and theoretical issues concerning writing and signing systems in the ancient Americas. The contributions here not only present the latest thinking about graphic and tactile systems of communication but constitute a major contribution to our comparative and global understanding of writing and literacy.

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• Authors: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Elizabeth Hill (EDT)/ Urton Boone, Oswaldo Chinchilla Maza, Margaret A. Jackson, Federico Navarrete, Michel R. Oudijk, Michel R. Salomon, Gary Urton
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Hill Boone (Editor), Gary Urton (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2011
• EAN: 9780884023685
• ISBN: 978-0-88402-368-5
• No. of pages: 398
• Dimensions: 222 mm x 286 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian S; Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia; Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography