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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 |
Pubblicazione: | Pittsburgh : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2006] |
©2006 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
Disciplina: | 302.2/24408998324 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | Peru History Conquest, 1522-1548 |
Spain Colonies America Administration | |
Persona (resp. second.): | YapitaJuan de Dios |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The metamorphosis of heads |
ISBN: | 0-8229-7102-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910789382903321 |
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