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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 165–173.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Sabine Hyland According to the anonymous seventeenth-century author of the Quito Manuscript, ancient Andeans once possessed a writing system ( qillqa ) that they replaced with knotted strings ( khipu ) as part of the religious and sexual reform of their nation. The manuscript's redactor, Fernando...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 553–572.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Spanish. Indigenous literacies retreated to the domains of weaving and spirituality. Symbols from both the glyphic writing system and the iconography of precontact textiles gained new interpretations in these media. Copyright 2015 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2015 Maya weaving...
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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
... Copyright 2023 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2023 Andes Bolivia Roman Catholic catechisms writing systems emergent scripts rebus pictographs While traveling through Bolivia between 1838 and 1843, the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi observed a form of pictographic script...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 175–182.
Published: 01 January 2010
... on What Writing Means, Beyond What
It “Says”: The Political Economy and Semiotics of
Graphic Pluralism in the Americas
Margaret Bender, Wake Forest University
Abstract. Graphic representation is linked to meaning at a number of levels, among
them those of orthographic system, text...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 January 2010
... both styles of writing, the colonial Maya elite created a system of graphic pluralism that enabled the Maya nobility to better defend their elite interests in a manner consistent with both pre-Columbian and colonial forms of writing, address, religion, and government administration. American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 505–536.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Steve J. Langdon Writing and “papers” were first encountered by the Tlingit through contacts with European explorers and traders in the late eighteenth century. Euro-American traders subsequently developed a system of papers of introduction for high-ranking indigenous leaders. These papers became...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 211–237.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Elizabeth Hill Boone This essay argues for the study of histories that are executed in graphic registers other than alphabetic writing, specifically histories that are painted, knotted, and threaded. As the products of the recording systems of the indigenous people themselves, they are inherently...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 625–649.
Published: 01 October 2010
... Press. forthcoming “We're Taking the Genius of Sequoyah into This Century”: The Cherokee Syllabary, Peoplehood, and Perseverance. Wicazo Sa Review 26 . forthcoming The Cherokee Writing System . Unpublished article manuscript. Cushman, Ellen, Eugene Kintgen, Barry Kroll, and Mike Rose 2001...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., Durham, NC, 15-16 February . Daniels, Peter T. 1996 The Study of Writing Systems. In The World's Writing Systems . Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, eds. Pp. 3 -20. New York: Oxford University Press. Elkins, James 1999 The Domain of Images . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 573–595.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Pluralism in the Americas . Ethnohistory 57 ( 1 ): 175 – 82 . Boone Elizabeth Hill 2008 The Death of Mexican Pictography . In The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication . Baines John Bennet John Houston Stephen , eds. Pp. 253 – 84...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 409–420.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... Bright William , eds. 1996 The World's Writing Systems . New York : Oxford University Press . Fuentes y Guzmán Francisco Antonio de 1972 Obras históricas de Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán . Edición y estudio preliminar de Carmelo Sáenz de Santa María. Biblioteca de autores...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 117–133.
Published: 01 January 2010
... they constitute
writing systems. At one level, this is merely a semantic issue that depends
upon the particular definition of writing that one adopts. However, I would
argue for a more radical approach that refuses to submit to the terms of this
debate. The concepts designated by the terms “writing...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 831–833.
Published: 01 October 2000
... pictographic or hieroglyphic writing systems—a feature of some
languages, like Nahuatl, Mixtec, and the Mayan family, which the au-
thor deemphasizes. Chapter takes up the history of this transition to
alphabetic writing. Friars played a major role here, and by the end of the
eighteenth century Cifuentes...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 221–222.
Published: 01 April 2014
...
studied, and yet maps are both text and image, both a writing system and a
visual medium, both graphic texts and coded objects containing their own
ciphers. Thus they are now keenly sought and analyzed by the historians
and art historians who have recently been building exciting new fields...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 445–448.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Stephen Houston By Claude-François Baudez. (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel,2002. 467 pp., table of contents, glossary, bibliography. Euro35.00 paper.) 2004 Marcus, Joyce 1992 Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations . Princeton, nj...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 279–301.
Published: 01 July 2023
... language did not have their own standardized writing system in the eighteenth century (Hall, pers. comm., 24 August 2020). The term denotes “the end of tide,” and eqpahak is “tide” in Maliseet (Francis and Leavitt 2008 : 129, 1141). In addition, Hall’s emails are highly appreciated to add further...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 816–818.
Published: 01 October 2000
... re-
searchers from nine countries, including residents from seven islands. Ar-
chaeologists are highly represented, as this field provides much information
on a people who did not have a formal writing system. Anthropologists and
historians lend an interdisciplinary flavor to the volume. However...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 July 2015
... hangers-on to
the fringes of the Aztec empire. Pipil writing thus presents an opportunity
to draw attention to both similarities and contrasts with the much larger
corpus of Nahuatl writing, particularly in terms of the range of topics, the
interplay of orality and notational systems...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 135–164.
Published: 01 January 2010
... to the research task of colleagues who study other, better known—
not to mention relatively fully deciphered—ancient writing systems. Most
notably, students of the khipus cannot even claim unambiguously to be pur-
suing the study of a writing system, as the status of these Inca cord records
with respect...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 497–524.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., remnants of a complex
system of writing that continued in altered but recognizable forms in many
parts of highland Mexico after the conquest, even after alphabetic writing
was adopted in those same areas. Second, entries record the year in which
the transaction took place but rarely note the month...
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