...Ellen Cushman The development of the Cherokee syllabary from script to print happened during a time in the tribe's history when great pressures were upon them to civilize, adopt English and the Roman alphabet, and establish a government. Between 1821 and 1828, the syllabary itself went through...

...Camilla Townsend Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca . By Leibsohn Dana . ( Washington, DC : Dunbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection , 2009 . xv + 199 pp., preface, introduction, figures, plates, bibliography, index...

...Sabine Hyland Abstract Andean pictographic writing, once considered the creation of foreign missionaries, is now recognized as a series of locally developed scripts that emerged after contact with alphabetic writing. However, the role of stylistic variation within the Andean pictographic scripts...

... at Vijayanagara. Journal of Asian Studies 55 (4): 851 -80. Wolhoff, G. J., and Abdurrahim 1959 Sedjarah Gowa . Ujung Pandang: Jajasan Kebudajaan Sulawesi Selatan dan Tenggara. Scripting Islamization: Arabic Texts in Early Modern Makassar...

...Sarahh Scher A History of the Khipu. By Brokaw Galen . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . xvi + 300 pp., preface, introduction, bibliography, index . $95.00 cloth.) Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America. Edited by Boone...

...John F. Chuchiak, IV This paper offers a revisionist viewpoint on the nature of colonial Maya literacy, showing that the colonial Yucatec Maya elite utilized both the traditional hieroglyphic script and the new alphabetic writing skills taught by the Franciscan friars. By adapting and utilizing...

... of the Bacabs.1 As scripts for performance, entextualized incantations must take into account (implicitly or explicitly) the considerations discussed above. In my analysis, I pay special attention to genre labeling and explicit directions regarding performance, to abbre- viation conventions...

... Galen Brokaw and they clearly employ an indigenous iconographic style, or calcographic style as Valadés calls it. The relationship between the classical memory system and Mesoamerican iconographic script resides in the fact that they both employ images. Valadés does not discuss in any...

..., Steven 2004 The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process . New York: Cambridge University Press. La Jara, Victoria de 1973 La découverte de l'écriture péruvienne. ARCHEO (Lima) 62 : 8 -15. Leroi-Gourhan, André 1993 [1964] Gesture and Speech . Cambridge: MIT Press...

...- enced by social contexts. At the level of character/system/script, this may include indexical relationships between script use and group membership, for example; at the text level, this may involve complex networks of produc- tion, distribution, and access. What Constitutes the “Graphic...

... evidence, it appears that the author of the Quito Manuscript was an indigenous or mestizo individual from the Quito area (Hyland 2007: The Moral Origins of Andean Khipu 167 57–68). Montesinos copied most of Book II directly from the Quito Manu- script, to which he had...

... notations. Letters must be sufficiently dis- tinct and well rendered in any given text to be recognizable. For maximum utility, the alphabet should be simple enough to learn and use.3 All those of us who work on colonial Maya know how challenging the paleography can be. Script style varies over time...

... from the authors’ eclectic vision of the hieroglyphs as a ‘‘transdialectal script’’ (9). Such practice falls below current standards of evidence for the decipherment of logographs (see Houston et al. 2001: 7–10), the vast majority of which have but one reading, regardless of geographic region...

... in this collection is a manu- script of forty-­four pages written in Yucatec Maya that was cataloged as a “Christian doctrine.” In the summer of 2012 while searching BYU’s archives for Maya religious texts, I fortuitously came across this manuscript. Having performed a preliminary analysis and deliberated...

... Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Boone Elizabeth Hill Urton Gary 2011 Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America . Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks . Bricker...

... from the authors’ eclectic vision of the hieroglyphs as a ‘‘transdialectal script’’ (9). Such practice falls below current standards of evidence for the decipherment of logographs (see Houston et al. 2001: 7–10), the vast majority of which have but one reading, regardless of geographic region...

... andsacrificeofanenemywarriorattheroyalcourtofRedMountaininthe early fifteenth century. Although the play refers to events that took place before the European invasion, the earliest surviving script was copied in the highland Guatemalan town of Rabinal in the mid-nineteenth century. Tedlock’s translation draws from both an 1862 publication and from his...

... andsacrificeofanenemywarriorattheroyalcourtofRedMountaininthe early fifteenth century. Although the play refers to events that took place before the European invasion, the earliest surviving script was copied in the highland Guatemalan town of Rabinal in the mid-nineteenth century. Tedlock’s translation draws from both an 1862 publication and from his...

... andsacrificeofanenemywarriorattheroyalcourtofRedMountaininthe early fifteenth century. Although the play refers to events that took place before the European invasion, the earliest surviving script was copied in the highland Guatemalan town of Rabinal in the mid-nineteenth century. Tedlock’s translation draws from both an 1862 publication and from his...

... andsacrificeofanenemywarriorattheroyalcourtofRedMountaininthe early fifteenth century. Although the play refers to events that took place before the European invasion, the earliest surviving script was copied in the highland Guatemalan town of Rabinal in the mid-nineteenth century. Tedlock’s translation draws from both an 1862 publication and from his...