1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464652903321

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

Electronic books.

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSOBE00037738

Autore

Ferraro, Italo

Titolo

[7]: Pizzofalcone e "Le mortelle" / Italo Ferraro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : Oikos, 2010

ISBN

9788890147883

Descrizione fisica

LXII, 606 p. : ill. ; 30 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Sul front.: Fondazione Premio Napoli e Metropolitana di Napoli