Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems: A Theoretical Approach / Katarzyna Mikulska
Section 1: On Semasiographs and Semasiography
1. On the Classification of Graphs in Central Mexican Pictorial Writing / David Charles Wright-Carr
2. The System of Graphic Communication in the Central Mexican Divinatory Codices from the Functional Perspective / Katarzyna Mikulska
Section 2: Metaphor, Orality, and Space
3. The "Law of the Series": A Proposal for the Decipherment of Aztec Ritual Language / Danièle Dehouve
4. Sacrifice in the Codex Borgia: Examples from an Inventory of Phrases / Angélica Baena Ramírez
5. Clothes with Metaphorical Names and the Representation of Metaphors in the Costumes of the Aztec Gods / Loïc Vauzelle
6. What Lies Beneath: Generating Mesoamerican Media Surfaces / Jerome A. Offner
7. Traces of Orality in the Codex Xolotl / Katarzyna Szoblik
Section 3: Reconnoitering the Periphery
8. On the Iconic Nature of Tocapus and Other Framed Motif Units / Christiane Clados
9. Geometric Motifs in Rock Art as a System of Visual Communication / Stanisław Iwaniszewski
10. Status Markers in Moche Iconography / Janusz Z. Wołoszyn
Section 4: Going into Detail
11. Hieroglyphs of Virtue and Vice: On the Interplay of Writing and Iconography / Gordon Whittaker
12. An Approach to Anthroponymic Glyphs in Nahuatl Writing Contained in El Libro de los Tributos de San Pablo Teocaltitlan or the Codex Valeriano / Juan José Batalla Rosado and Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio
13. The Making of Academic Myth / Michel R. Oudijk
Afterword / Jerome A. Offner
About the Authors
Index