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Author:
Arnold, Denise Y. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006112962
Title:
The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes / Denise Y. Arnold with Juan de Dios Yapita.
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
xiii, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Indians of South America--Education--Bolivia.
Aymara Indians--Education.
Indians of South America--Andes Region--Writing.--Writing.
Quipu.
Inca textile fabrics.
Indian literature--Criticism, Textual.
Transmission of texts--Andes Region.
Literacy--Bolivia.
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548.
Spain--Administration.--America--Administration.
Other Authors:
Yapita, Juan de Dios. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82026283
Other Titles:
Rincón de las cabezas. English
Notes:
Translation of: El rincón de las cabezas. Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index.
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.
Series:
Illuminations
ISBN:
9780822942801
0822942801
OCLC:
(OCoLC)62281435
LCCN:
2005031096
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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