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Author Arnold, Denise Y., author.

Unif Title Rinco⁺ѓn de las cabezas. English
Title The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes / Denise Y. Arnold with Juan de Dios Yapita.

Pub Info Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006]
℗♭2006

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Descript 1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Illuminations
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Note Translation of: El rinco⁺ѓn de las cabezas.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index.
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.
Summary Annotation Since the days of the Spanish Conquest, the indigenous populations of Andean Bolivia have struggled to preserve their textile-based writings. This struggle continues today, both in schools and within the larger culture. The Metamorphosis of Headsexplores the history and cultural significance of Andean textile writings--weavings and kipus (knotted cords), and their extreme contrasts in form and production from European alphabet-based texts. Denise Arnold examines the subjugation of native texts in favor of European ones through the imposition of homogenized curricula by the Educational Reform Law. As Arnold reveals, this struggle over language and education directly correlates to long-standing conflicts for land ownership and power in the region, since the majority of the more affluent urban population is Spanish speaking, while indigenous languages are spoken primarily among the rural poor. The Metamorphosis of Heads acknowledges the vital importance of contemporary efforts to maintain Andean history and cultural heritage in schools, and shows how indigenous Andean populations have incorporated elements of Western textual practices into their own textual activities. Based on extensive fieldwork over two decades, and historical, anthropological, and ethnographic research, Denise Arnold assembles an original and richly diverse interdisciplinary study. The textual theory she proposes has wider ramifications for studies of Latin America in general, while recognizing the specifically regional practices of indigenous struggles in the face of nation building and economic globalization.
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Subject 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.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Aymara Indians -- Education. (OCoLC)fst00824539
Inca textile fabrics. (OCoLC)fst00968402
Indian literature. (OCoLC)fst00969135
Indians of South America -- Education. (OCoLC)fst00969992
Indians of South America -- Languages -- Writing. (OCoLC)fst00970040
Literacy. (OCoLC)fst00999859
Colonies -- Administration. (OCoLC)fst00868457
Quipu. (OCoLC)fst01086107
Spanish colonies. (OCoLC)fst01930866
Transmission of texts. (OCoLC)fst01154863
America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
Andes Region. (OCoLC)fst01241744
Bolivia. (OCoLC)fst01205549
Peru. (OCoLC)fst01205190
Conquest of Peru (Peru : 1522-1548) (OCoLC)fst01352533
1522-1548
Alt Author Yapita, Juan de Dios, author.
ISBN 9780822971023 (electronic bk.)
082297102X (electronic bk.)
9780822962748
0822962748
0822942801 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822942801