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Autor/in | Stross, Brian |
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Titel | Mesoamerica Writing at the Crossroads: The Late Formative. |
Quelle | In: Visible Language, 24 (1990) 1, S.38-61 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0022-2224 |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; American Indian Languages; Ancient History; Higher Education; Ideography; Latin American Culture; Latin American History; Symbolic Language |
Abstract | Offers an overview of Later Formative period writing in Mesoamerica, and discusses recent findings. Asserts that analysis of the iconographic context of the script reveals considerable interdependence between text and context and provides a glimpse of the importance of cosmological considerations in the display of power. Discusses the importance of maize in the scripts. (PRA) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |