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 | Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes (2nd Edition) by Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone (Editor), Walter D. Mignolo (Editor), Prof Stephen Houston, Contributor-Tom Cummins, Contributor-John Pohl, Mark B. King, Contributor-Stephen Houston, Contributor-Elizabeth Boone, Contributor-Mark King Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-8223-1388-X / 082231388X ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1388-5 / 9780822313885 The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread notions of literacy and dominant views of art and lit | |