Creating context in Andean cultures / edited by Rosaleen Howard-Malverde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howard-Malverde, Rosaleen, editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 6.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quechua language--Discourse analysis.

Quechua language.

Quechua language--Semantics.

Culture--Andes Region--Semiotic models.

Culture.

Discourse analysis, Narrative--Andes Region.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Anthropological linguistics--Andes Region.

Anthropological linguistics.

Semantics--Andes Region.

Semantics.

Criticism, Textual--Andes Region.

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of papers explores various indigenous Andean languages and cultures in the context of new anthropological thinking about ""texts"" and textuality. The contributors focus on the ways socially subordinated cultural groups construct distinctive historical identities.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; A Note on Orthography; 1 Introduction: Between Text and Context in the Evocation of Culture; I: Textualising Histories and Identities in Cultural Performances; II: Multiple Media: Ritual, Weaving, and the Making of Meanings; III: Inside the Text: Processes of Textualisation in Written Quechua Discourse; IV: Orality and Literacies as Reflexes of Colonisation and Resistance; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772148-6

1-280-52912-1

0-19-535518-0

OCLC:

466424578