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

By: Contributor(s): 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 resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822971023 (e-book)
Uniform titles:
  • Rincón de las cabezas. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes.DDC classification:
  • 302.2/24408998324 22
LOC classification:
  • F3320.1.E4 A7513 2006eb
Online resources:
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 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.

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