...Matthew Restall Copyright 2015 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2015 Editor’s Preface Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University The John Carter Brown Library (JCB) in Providence, Rhode Island, has long been a mecca for ethnohistorians in search of its rare books, maps...

..., Spanish and Mesoamerican, met and remade each other as part of colonial encounters. The 2012 International Workshop on Indigenous Literacy in Mesoamerica and the Colonial World at the John Carter Brown Library (JCB) at Brown University hosted a diverse group of scholars to debate the social...

...- servative and creative nature of semiosis and writing in the Mixteca Alta region of Mesoamerica nearly five centuries ago. Notes I would like to thank Kathryn Sampeck for organizing the JCB workshop and all of the participants who shared their research during that week in June 2012. I am...