… writing in the Americas can no longer be bracketed off as insignificant. Their Way of Writing
both extends and reworks the Writing … in Their Way of Writing focus on written traditions …

… of what writing is through the use of the terms scripts, signs and pictography, though this …
allows each author to develop his or her individual definition of writing. Thus, definitions of …

… While this volume focuses more on some of the lesser-understood scripts from the Americas…
glottographic Maya writing system because of his broad familiarity with world writing systems …

… falls under the term “writing” but often exists outside that … their modes of operation, as well
as their relationship with alphabetic writing, has remained a sticky question in pre- Columbian …

… pure’written traditions that we can oppose to ‘pure’pictography (and … Native American
techniques of memory are true scripts or … Let us begin with a famous example of the pre-Columbian …

… “pure” written traditions that we can oppose to “pure” pictography (… Native American techniques
of memory are true scripts or … Let us look at a famous example of the pre-Columbian Aztec …

… In our own scribal tradition, we commonly crumple the written … biomechanical means) or
obliterate our mistakes with the elec… But the treatment of writing on stone in such cases helps us …

… with their corresponding imagery; script and imagery form a … It is the latter of these possibilities
that concerns us here. … 18Pictographic qualities can also be discerned in syllabic signs…

… America (texts and images) requires setting just a few historical parameters for readers
unfamiliar with Pre-Columbian … construction of the Tabernacle writing that there is an atrium of the …

… to the ability of mastering script (ie the proficiency to read and write but also to understand
and … by technology since scripts or texts consist of a combination of codified signs in order to …