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Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge
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Elizabeth Hill Boone, 1994. "Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge", Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter D. Mignolo
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