The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes /
Arnold, Denise Y.,
The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes / Denise Y. Arnold with Juan de Dios Yapita. - 1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, map. - Illuminations . - Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.) .
Translation of: El rincon de las cabezas.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index.
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.
9780822971023
Indians of South America--Education--Bolivia.
Aymara Indians--Education.
Indians of South America--Languages--Writing.--Andes Region
Quipu.
Inca textile fabrics.
Indian literature--Criticism, Textual.
Transmission of texts--Andes Region.
Literacy--Bolivia.
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548.
Spain--Colonies--Administration.--America
Electronic books.
F3320.1.E4 / A7513 2006
302.2/24408998324
The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes / Denise Y. Arnold with Juan de Dios Yapita. - 1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, map. - Illuminations . - Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.) .
Translation of: El rincon de las cabezas.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index.
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.
9780822971023
Indians of South America--Education--Bolivia.
Aymara Indians--Education.
Indians of South America--Languages--Writing.--Andes Region
Quipu.
Inca textile fabrics.
Indian literature--Criticism, Textual.
Transmission of texts--Andes Region.
Literacy--Bolivia.
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548.
Spain--Colonies--Administration.--America
Electronic books.
F3320.1.E4 / A7513 2006
302.2/24408998324