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Stories in red and black : pictorial histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs

"This investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans understood and presented themselves and how they used pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems developed, like mathematical or musical notation, to convey meaning directly and without a detour through speech, creating a broadly understood corpus of visual conventions that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries."

Print Book, English, 2000
University of Texas Press, Austin, 2000