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

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Bibliographic Details
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.)
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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.