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The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes /

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Main Author: Arnold, Denise Y. (joint author.)
Other Authors: Yapita, Juan de Dios (joint author.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006]
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:
Indians of South America > Education > Bolivia.
Aymara Indians > Education.
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.
Spain > Colonies > America > Administration.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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