The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes / Denise Y. Arnold with Juan de Dios Yapita.

By: Arnold, Denise Y [joint author.]Contributor(s): Yapita, Juan de Dios [joint author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006]Copyright date: 2006Description: 1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780822971023Uniform titles: Rincon de las cabezas. English Subject(s): 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 -- AdministrationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes.DDC classification: 302.2/24408998324 LOC classification: F3320.1.E4 | A7513 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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.

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