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The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes
Rincón de las cabezas. English
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- Creator
- Denise Y. Arnold with Juan de Dios Yapita
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822971023, 9780822962748, 0822942801, 082297102X, 0822962748, 9780822942801
- OCLC
- ocm62281435, ocn878136380
- Translation of: El rincón 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
Subjects
- 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 -- Administration.