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- Title
Indigenous American Polygraphy and the Dialogic Model of Media.
- Authors
Brokaw, Galen
- Abstract
Indigenous American societies pose serious problems for traditional theories of orality, literacy, and writing. This article attempts to deconstruct the orality-literacy dichotomy that has traditionally informed anthropological thought (whether it be of anthropologists, historians, literary critics, or others). Using indigenous American media such as the Andean khipu, Moche fine-line painting, and Mesoamerican iconography as a starting and ending point, it proposes a dialogic model of literacy and subsequently a dialogic model of media that constitutes a revision of the traditional anthropological and historical theory relating to the role of writing/media, its relationship to the development of socioeconomic and political complexity, and its cognitive effects.
- Subjects
CENTRAL America; ANDES Region; NATIVE American picture-writing; ORAL communication; ACCULTURATION; QUIPU; CULTURAL pluralism; INDIGENOUS peoples of Central America -- Languages; WRITING
- Publication
Ethnohistory, 2010, Vol 57, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
0014-1801
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00141801-2009-056