En torno a los códigos mesoamericanos de comunicación visual: la relación entre texto e imagen

An interdisciplinary study of Mesoamerican visual communication, exploring the relationship between text and image across Maya and central Mexican traditions. Drawing on new research, it reinterprets graphic systems, their meanings, and the visual thinking underlying them.

This volume brings together the findings of an interdisciplinary dialogue on the complex relationships between image and writing in Mesoamerica. Building on the symposium ‘On Mesoamerican codes of visual communication: the relationship between text and image’, held as part of the 56th Congreso Internacional de Americanistas in Salamanca, the authors examine various systems of graphic representation, from the Maya region to the central regions of Mexico, and propose new interpretations of their operating principles, their mechanisms of complementarity, and the forms of visual thought that underpin them.

The papers compiled here offer an up-to-date overview of theoretical reflections on visual communication in pre-Columbian societies, bringing together iconographic, epigraphic and cultural exchange perspectives. Rather than bringing a debate to a close, this book seeks to reignite the discussion on the categories that have served to understand the interaction between text and image in Mesoamerica, and to sustain the critical and collaborative spirit that gave rise to the Salamanca conference.

Introducción – Daniel Salazar Lama y Rogelio Valencia Rivera

Image in Text: The Pictorial Aspect of Mesoamerican Writing Systems and the Long History of Typological Misconceptions – Harri Kettunen

Emblemas de la serpiente de guerra: Explorando los límites entre escritura e iconografía maya en la cerámica estilo Códice – Daniel Salazar Lama, Rogelio Valencia Rivera, Davide Domenici

Las expresiones implícitas de la personificación de dioses en textos e imágenes mayas del periodo Clásico – Felix Kupprat

El uso de determinativos semánticos en la iconografía maya como mecanismo denotativo y connotativo de la imagen – Rogelio Valencia Rivera

Los ojos como un lugar para el significado. Signos y textos oculares en la iconografía maya – Daniel Salazar Lama

Nombres de dioses codificados en sus imágenes en el códice borgia y otros códices adivinatorios – Katarzyna Mikulska

• Edited by Daniel Salazar Lama
• Edited by Rogelio Valencia Rivera