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UNINA9910789382903321 |
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Autore |
Arnold Denise Y. |
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Titolo |
The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes / / Denise Y. Arnold with Juan de Dios Yapita |
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Pittsburgh : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2006] |
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©2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Collana |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translation of: El rincón de las cabezas. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index. |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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UNISALENTO991004335538107536 |
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Autore |
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius |
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C. Cornelio Tacito illustrato, ossia Antologia politico-istorica : tratta dal testo / compilata dal Cav. Giovanni Battista Chiarini |
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Napoli : Stamperia del Fibreno, [1851-1859] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Chiarini, Giovanni Battistaauthor |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Vol. 1 - [1851]. - 441 p. |
Vol. 4. - 1853. - 413 p. |
Vol. 5. - 1854. - 420 p. |
Vol. 6. - 1856. - 309 p. |
Vol. 7. - 1856. - 405 p. |
Vol. 8. - 1859. - 399 p. |
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