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The Metamorphosis of Heads : Textual Struggles, Education, and Land in the Andes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Illuminations SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822971023
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Metamorphosis of HeadsDDC classification:
  • 302.2/24408998324
LOC classification:
  • F3320
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Textual Struggles -- 1. Andean Textual Polity -- 2. Colonizing Texts and the Struggle over Meanings -- Part 2. The Rostrum of Heads -- 3. Land, Seeds, and Letters:The Cycles of Production and Reproduction -- 4. Cycles of Metamorphosis: The Children as Enemies -- 5. Warriors and Weavers: The Pathways of Learning in the Community -- 6. The Cycles of Libations in School Rituals -- Part 3. Andean Texts and their Interpretation -- 7. Cycles of Memory: The Inka's Voice -- 8. Cycles of Sound: Prayers and the "Rain of Letters -- 9. The Corporeality of Kipus: Toward a Mathematics Incarnate -- 10. Kipu, Number, and Writing -- 11. Textual Logic in the Andes -- 12. Toward an Andean Textual Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Provides a comprehensive ethnography of writing in the Andes, and details the relationship between Andean peoples' struggle to preserve their indigenous textual forms in the face of Western cirricula, with their struggle for land and power.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Textual Struggles -- 1. Andean Textual Polity -- 2. Colonizing Texts and the Struggle over Meanings -- Part 2. The Rostrum of Heads -- 3. Land, Seeds, and Letters:The Cycles of Production and Reproduction -- 4. Cycles of Metamorphosis: The Children as Enemies -- 5. Warriors and Weavers: The Pathways of Learning in the Community -- 6. The Cycles of Libations in School Rituals -- Part 3. Andean Texts and their Interpretation -- 7. Cycles of Memory: The Inka's Voice -- 8. Cycles of Sound: Prayers and the "Rain of Letters -- 9. The Corporeality of Kipus: Toward a Mathematics Incarnate -- 10. Kipu, Number, and Writing -- 11. Textual Logic in the Andes -- 12. Toward an Andean Textual Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Provides a comprehensive ethnography of writing in the Andes, and details the relationship between Andean peoples' struggle to preserve their indigenous textual forms in the face of Western cirricula, with their struggle for land and power.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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