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Weaving Words and Interwoven Meanings. Textual Polyvocality and Visual Literacy in the Reading of Copán’s Stela J

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dc.creatorHudson, Kathryn M.
dc.creatorHenderson, John S.
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-03T12:22:56Z
dc.date.available2021-08-03T12:22:56Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractOrthodox analytical approaches to analyses of Maya stelae - monuments that celebrate Maya kings visually and in hieroglyphic texts - proceed as though each contains two distinct and only vaguely related elements: the text and the accompanying imagery. These features are most often conceptu-alized, analyzed, and interpreted separately in a methodological framework that has created a widely shared perspective in which text and context have become thoroughly divorced from each other but reified as distinct con-stituent elements. Epigraphic and art historical approaches to Maya monu-ments thus operate independently from one another, and they are rarely well integrated with archaeological analyses. One result of this separation is that studies of Maya monumental texts have become so intertwined with the prac-tice of epigraphy that they are conceptualized in narrowly linguistic terms. This affords linguistic texts a privileged status disproportional to their total contributions to the textual whole and promotes a narrow understanding of how Maya texts should be read. This paper illustrates the problematic nature of this orthodoxy through an analysis of Copán’s Stela J, showing how Maya stelae were polyvocal, designed to be read in multiple ways.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16482
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/17352
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherHerbert von Halem
dc.publisher.placeKöln
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1614-0885
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectEpigrafikde
dc.subjectLinguistikde
dc.subjectSprachede
dc.subjectVisual Literacyen
dc.subjectlanguageen
dc.subjectlinguisticsen
dc.subjectepigraphyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:898
dc.subject.workSTELA J
dc.titleWeaving Words and Interwoven Meanings. Textual Polyvocality and Visual Literacy in the Reading of Copán’s Stela Jen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-08-03T14:34:49
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://www.gib.uni-tuebingen.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111&Itemid=157&menuItem=miArchive&showIssue=79
local.source.epage128
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleHeft 22
local.source.spage108
local.source.volume11

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