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The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes / Denise Y. Arnold with Juan de Dios Yapita.
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View onlinePenn Museum Library F3320.1.E4 A7513 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, Denise Y.
- Series:
- Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Illuminations
- Standardized Title:
- Rincón de las cabezas. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Education--Bolivia.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Education.
- Colonies.
- Administration.
- Literacy.
- Transmission of texts.
- Indian literature.
- Criticism, Textual.
- Language and languages.
- Writing.
- Aymara Indians--Education.
- Aymara Indians.
- Bolivia.
- Indians of South America--Andes Region--Languages--Writing.
- Quipu.
- Inca textile fabrics.
- Indian literature--Criticism, Textual.
- Transmission of texts--Andes Region.
- Literacy--Bolivia.
- Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548.
- Peru.
- History.
- Spain--Colonies--America--Administration.
- Spain.
- America.
- Andes Region.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Provides a comprehensive ethnography of writing in the Andes, and details the relationship between Andean peoples' struggle to preserve their indigenous textual forms in the face of Western cirricula, with their struggle for land and power.
- Contents:
- Andean textual polity
- Colonizing texts and the struggle over meanings
- Lands, seeds, and letters : the cycles of production and reproduction
- Cycles of metamorphosis : the children as enemies
- Warriors and weavers : the pathways of learning in the community
- The cycles of libations in school rituals
- Cycles of memory : the Inka's voice
- Cycles of sound : prayers and the "rain of letters"
- The corporeality of Kipus : toward a mathematics incarnate
- Kipu, number, and writing
- Textual logic in the Andes
- Toward an Andean textual theory.
- Notes:
- Translation of: El rincón de las cabezas.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822942801
- OCLC:
- 62281435
- Publisher Number:
- 9780822942801
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