Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems : A Theoretical Approach. Indigenous graphic communication systems : a theoretical approach / edited by Katarzyna Mikulska, Jerome A. Offner.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems: A Theoretical Approach
Section 1: On Semasiographs and Semasiography
On the Classification of Graphs in Central Mexican Pictorial Writing
The System of Graphic Communication in the Central Mexican Divinatory Codices from the Functional Perspective
Section 2: Metaphor, Orality, and Space
The "Law of the Series": A Proposal for the Decipherment of Aztec Ritual Language
Sacrifice in the Codex Borgia: Examples from an Inventory of Phrases
Clothes with Metaphorical Names and the Representation of Metaphors in the Costumes of the Aztec Gods
What Lies Beneath: Generating Mesoamerican Media Surfaces
Traces of Orality in the Codex Xolotl
Section 3: Reconnoitering the Periphery
On the Iconic Nature of Tocapus and Other Framed Motif Units
Geometric Motifs in Rock Art as a System of Visual Communication
Status Markers in Moche Iconography
Section 4: Going into Detail
Hieroglyphs of Virtue and Vice: On the Interplay of Writing and Iconography
An Approach to Anthroponymic Glyphs in Nahuatl Writing Contained in El Libro de los Tributos de San Pablo Teocaltitlan or the Codex Valeriano
The Making of Academic Myth
Afterword
About the Authors
Index.