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Pictograph to Alphabet and Back: Reconstructing the Pictographic Origins of the Xajil Chronicle - Couverture rigide

II, Robert M. Hill

 
9781606180242: Pictograph to Alphabet and Back: Reconstructing the Pictographic Origins of the Xajil Chronicle
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ISBN 10 : 160618024X ISBN 13 : 9781606180242
Editeur : American Philosophical Society Press, 2012

Synopsis

The Xajil chronicle of the Kaqchikel Maya of Guatemala is topically the most diverse, lengthy, and organizationally complex of the surviving highland-Maya historical texts that were first recorded alphabetically in the colonial period. In this monograph, the author demonstrates that much of the Chronicle was redacted from pre-conquest pictographic documents, documents that now are lost. Both the organization and topical coverage allow the author to identify the specific genres of the pictographic originals and to characterize the content of pre-conquest historical "archives," as well as gauge the amount of information contained in such documents, which would necessarily have been committed to memory by indigenous historians. Illus.

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Éditeur
American Philosophical Society Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
160618024X
ISBN 13 
9781606180242
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
124
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