Knowledge and learning in the Andes : ethnographic perspectives / edited by Henry Stobart and Rosaleen Howard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stobart, Henry, 1958-

Howard, Rosaleen.

Series:

Liverpool Latin American studies ; new ser., 3.

Liverpool Latin American studies ; new ser., 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Education--Andes Region.

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Education.

Education.

Intellectual life.

Andes Region.

Andes Region--Intellectual life.

Education--Andes Region.

Physical Description:

x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Part I Multiple Media in the Creation and Transmission of Knowledge

1 Yachay: The Tragedia del fin de Atahuallpa as Evidence of the Colonisation of Knowledge in the Andes / Rosaleen Howard 17

2 Transmission of Knowledge through Textiles: Weaving and Learning How to Live / Lindsey Crickmay 40

3 Coloured Knowledges: Colour Perception and the Dissemination of Knowledge in Isluga, Northern Chile / Penny Dransart 56

4 Interlocking Realms: Knowing Music and Musical Knowing in the Bolivian Andes / Henry Stobart 79

Part II Knowledge, Power and Authority

5 Coming to Power: Knowledge, Learning and Historic Pathways to Authority in a Bolivian Community / Astvaldur Astvaldsson 109

6 Juggling Knowledge, Juggling Power: The Role of the Professional Indigenous Activist in San Pablo, Ecuador / Janet Lloyd 127

Part III Conflicting Paradigms of Knowledge

7 Why Nazario is Leaving School: Community Perspectives on Formal Schooling in Rural Bolivia / Pedro Plaza Martinez 141

8 Local Knowledge in Health: The Case of Andean Midwifery / Barbara Bradby 166

9 Learning and Re-Learning How to Plant: The Impact of New Crops on the Spread and Control of New Agricultural Knowledge in the Ecuadorian Andes / Nicole Bourque 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

085323518X

OCLC:

48884814