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

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Superior document:Illuminations
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TeilnehmendeR:
Place / Publishing House:Pittsburgh : : University of Pittsburgh Press,, [2006]
2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Spanish
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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Physical Description:1 online resource (345 pages) :; illustrations, map.
Notes:Translation of: El rincon de las cabezas.
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Table of 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.