Presidential Lecture

Discourse and Authority in Histories Painted, Knotted, and Threaded

Bibliographic Data

ID2734951
AuthorsElizabeth Hill Boone (corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume59
Issue2
Pages211-237
Publication date2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00141801-1536867
OpenAlexW2316662600
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited21

This essay argues for the study of histories that are executed in graphic registers other than alphabetic writing, specifically histories that are painted, knotted, and threaded. As the products of the recording systems of the indigenous people themselves, they are inherently closer to indigenous epistemology than are alphabetic documents. They reveal the indigenous framework for conceptualizing and recording the past. As objects, they are the sites of discourse about the past, and they convey the authority of that past

Latin American history and culture · Media, Communication, and Education

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