Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations by Robert L Carneiro Distinguished University Professor Joyce Marcus, Joyce Marcus

Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations

Robert L Carneiro Distinguished University Professor Joyce Marcus, Joyce Marcus

524 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

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This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the...

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