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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782089203321

Autore

Howard-Malverde Rosaleen

Titolo

Creating context in Andean cultures / / Rosaleen Howard-Malverde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996

ISBN

0-19-772148-6

1-280-52912-1

0-19-535518-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 pages)

Collana

Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics  Creating context in Andean cultures

Disciplina

306.44

498.323

498/.323

Soggetti

Quechua language - Discourse analysis - Andes Region

Quechua language - Semantics - Andes Region

Culture - Semiotic models - Andes Region

Discourse analysis, Narrative - Andes Region

Anthropological linguistics - Andes Region

Semantics

Criticism, Textual

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.