Forms of Expression and Communication

Reading:

E. Hill Boone, ‘Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge’, in Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, ed. E. Hill Boone and D. Mignolo (1994), 3-26.

G. Tomlinson, The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact (2007), ch. 5 (‘Inca Singing at Cuzco’, pp. 124-167).

L. Sousa, ‘Telling History in Feathers: Plumes and Power in Nahua Narratives’, Ethnohistory 67, no. 3 (2020): 407-428.

S. Kroupa, ‘Reading beneath the Skin: Indigenous Tattooing in the Early Spanish Philippines, ca. 1520-1720’, American Historical Review 127, no. 3 (2022): 1252-1287.