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The lettered mountain : a Peruvian village's way with writing / Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia.
LIBRA P211.3.P4 S25 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salomon, Frank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Writing--Peru--Tupicocha.
- Writing.
- Literacy--Peru--Tupicocha.
- Literacy.
- Sociolinguistics--Peru--Tupicocha.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Indians of South America--Peru--Tupicocha--Language.
- Indians of South America.
- Peru--Tupicocha.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C] : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Peru and the ethnography of writing
- An Andean community writes itself
- From khipu to narrative
- A tale of two lettered cities: schooling from ayllu to state
- "Papelito manda": the power of writing
- Power over writing: academy and ayllu
- Writing and the rehearsal of the past
- Village and diaspora as deterritorialized library.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822350279
- 0822350270
- 9780822350446
- 0822350440
- OCLC:
- 700406674
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