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Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2023
... is little understood, nor has the rebus-based glottography of the system’s phonetic signs been fully studied. This article examines the Koati variant of Andean pictographic script from Bolivia’s Island of the Moon, based in part on a newly found pictographic manuscript preserved on animal hides in Harvard...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 409–420.
Published: 01 July 2015
... these issues. While
the linguistic framework of glosses, syllabic, logographic, and rebus-like
writing systems emphasize the relationship of symbols and speech, these
acts equally gain their significance and “grammar” from how they relate to
414 Kathryn E...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 117–133.
Published: 01 January 2010
... a high degree of semiotic heterogeneity. The mimetic conven-
tions of this medium are the most obvious, but it often employs a type of
phonography through the use of rebuses, primarily for personal and place
names. A classic example is the glyph for the city of Cuauhnahuac (modern
day Cuernavaca...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 July 2015
...-language writing in Mesoamerica;
they wrote early, often, and for many different purposes. Early colonial writ-
ings employ pictographic, logographic, and rebus-like recording methods,
and writings in alphabetic script conveyed Nahuatl principles and poetics
(Lockhart 1992). Scholars disagree...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 223–248.
Published: 01 April 2019
... is erected, seen in the Testerian catechism of 1614 that translates the Lord’s Prayer into a rebus for the instruction of indigenous Christian neophytes (see fig. 3 ). Before the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, momoxtli referred to a platform, stage, or altar for human sacrifice (Orduña 2011 : 219...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 17–38.
Published: 01 January 2015
... Aristotelis expositio, seu de rebus civi-
libus 1.1 (Quebec City, 1940), 14.
16 Thomas Aquinas, In octo libros Politicorum Aristotelis expositio 1.1, 15. Cf. Aris-
totle, Politics 1.2 (1253a), in Complete Works of Aristotle, 2:1988: “Man, when
perfected, is the best of animals; but, when...
