Writing Without Words
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Writing Without Words
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Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1994
Writing Without Words written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art categories.
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 literature, history and geography. Asking how knowledge was encoded and preserved in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Mesoamerican cultures, the authors focus on systems of writing that did not strive to represent speech. Their work reveals the complicity of ideology in the history of literacy, and offers new insight into the history of writing. The contributors--who include art historians, anthropologists, and literary theorists--examine the ways in which ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples conveyed meaning through hieroglyphic, pictorial, and coded systems, systems inseparable from the ideologies they were developed to serve. We see, then, how these systems changed with the European invasion, and how uniquely colonial writing systems came to embody the post-conquest American ideologies. The authors also explore the role of these early systems in religious discourse and their relation to later colonial writing. Bringing the insights from Mesoamerica and the Andes to bear on a fundamental exchange among art history, literary theory, semiotics, and anthropology, the volume reveals the power contained in the medium of writing. Contributors. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tom Cummins, Stephen Houston, Mark B. King, Dana Leibsohn, Walter D. Mignolo, John Monaghan, John M. D. Pohl, Joanne Rappaport, Peter van der Loo
A Man Without Words
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Author : Susan Schaller
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-05-15
A Man Without Words written by Susan Schaller and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Social Science categories.
For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. The book vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. This second edition includes a new chapter and afterword.
Theology Without Words
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Author : Wayne Morris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-17
Theology Without Words written by Wayne Morris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-17 with Religion categories.
This book is a study of a Christian theology without words, focussing on theology in the Deaf Community. Deaf people's first and preferred method of communication is not English or any other spoken language, but British Sign Language - a language that cannot be written down. Deaf people of faith attend church on a regular basis, profess faith in God and have developed unique approaches to doing theology. While most Western theology is word-centred and is either expressed through or dependent on written texts, theology in the Deaf Community is largely non-written. This book presents and examines some of that theology from the Deaf Community and argues that written texts are not necessary for creative theological debate, a deep spirituality or for ideas about God to develop.
Song Without Words
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Author : Gerald Shea
language : en
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Release Date : 2013-02-26
Song Without Words written by Gerald Shea and has been published by Hachette+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-26 with Health & Fitness categories.
A “fascinating memoir” of living with partial deafness that offers new insight into the nature of language (Booklist). Much has been written about the profoundly deaf, but the lives of the nearly thirty million partially deaf people in the United States today remain hidden. Song without Words tells the astonishing story of a man who, at the age of thirty-four, discovered that he had been unable to hear higher ranges of speech since a bout of scarlet fever childhood, yet somehow managed to navigate his way through Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and to establish a prestigious international legal career. Gerald Shea’s witty and candid memoir tells how he compensated for his deafness through sheer determination and an amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels—albeit with some mistakes along the way. His experience gives fascinating new insight into the nature and significance of language, the meaning of deafness, the fierce controversy between advocates of signing and of oral education, and the longing for full communication that unites us all. “With candor, insight, and considerable charm and wit, Gerald Shea has explored the little-known world of the partially deaf, a world of confused language and identity.” —Andrew Solomon, New York Times–bestselling author of Far from the Tree
Float
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Author : Daniel Miyares
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-06-09
Float written by Daniel Miyares and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-09 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A boy’s small paper boat—and his large imagination—fill the pages of this wordless picture book, a modern-day classic from the creator of Pardon Me! that includes endpaper instructions for building a boat of your own. A little boy takes a boat made of newspaper out for a rainy-day adventure. The boy and his boat dance in the downpour and play in the puddles, but when the boy sends his boat floating down a gutter stream, it quickly gets away from him. So of course the little boy goes on the hunt for his beloved boat—and when the rain lets up, he finds himself on a new adventure altogether. This seemingly simply story from Daniel Miyares is enriched with incredible depth and texture that transcend words.
In The Town All Year Round
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Author : Rotraut Susanne Berner
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2008-10
In The Town All Year Round written by Rotraut Susanne Berner and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Pictures depict busy people in a town throughout the year.
A Pre Columbian World
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Author : Jeffrey Quilter
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 2006
A Pre Columbian World written by Jeffrey Quilter and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
The articles in this book conceptualize the ancient New World through new and varied approaches, from iconography to the history of anthropology. The many essays in this volume explore the vast vista of the Pre-Columbian world, including representations of history, memory, and knowledge in Andean visual imagery and Pre-Columbian narrative, the ideology of rain making, and Maya beliefs about animal transformations.
Iconographic Method In New World Prehistory
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Author : Vernon J. Knight
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013
Iconographic Method In New World Prehistory written by Vernon J. Knight and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.
This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr., begins with a historigraphical overview, addressing the methodologies and theories that underpin both archaeology and art history. He then demonstrates how iconographic methods can be integrated with the scientific methods that are at the core of much archaeological inquiry. Focusing on artifacts from the pre-Columbian civilizations of North and Meso-American sites, Knight shows how the use of iconographic analysis yields new insights into these objects and civilizations.
Queequeg S Coffin
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Author : Birgit Brander Rasmussen
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-06
Queequeg S Coffin written by Birgit Brander Rasmussen and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-06 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work of Herman Melville.
Colonial Mediascapes
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Author : Matt Cohen
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2014-04-01
Colonial Mediascapes written by Matt Cohen and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Social Science categories.
In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions on paper, bark, skins, and many other kinds of surfaces. No one method of conveying meaning was privileged, and written texts often relied on nonwritten modes of communication. Colonial Mediascapes examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America. Extending the textual foundations of early American literary history, the editors bring a wide range of media to the attention of scholars and show how struggles over modes of communication intersected with conflicts over religion, politics, race, and gender. This collection of essays by major historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars demonstrates that the European settlement of the Americas and European interaction with Native peoples were shaped just as much by communication challenges as by traditional concerns such as religion, economics, and resources.