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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789382903321

Autore

Arnold Denise Y.

Titolo

The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes / / Denise Y. Arnold with Juan de Dios Yapita

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

0-8229-7102-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Illuminations

Disciplina

302.2/24408998324

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: El rincón de las cabezas.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the days of the Spanish Conquest, the indigenous populations of Andean Bolivia have struggled to preserve their textile-based writings. This struggle continues today, both in schools and within the larger



culture. The Metamorphosis of Heads explores the history and cultural significance of Andean textile writings--weavings and kipus (knotted cords), and their extreme contrasts in form and production from European alphabet-based texts. Denise Arnold examines the subjugation of native texts in favor of European ones through the imposition of homogenized curricula by the Educational Reform