Frank L Salomon, Mercedes Nino-Murcia

The Lettered Mountain

A Peruvian Village's Way with Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Frank Salomon is the John V. Murra Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village, also published by Duke University Press. Mercedes Niño-Murcia is Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Associate Director of the Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Iowa. She is a co-editor of Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the Crossroads with Other Languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 167mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350279
• ISBN-10: 0822350270
• Artikelnr.: 33396144

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations xi
Tables xv
Preface xvii
Introduction. Peru and the Ethnography of Writing 1
1. An Andean Community Writes Itself 31
2. From Khipu to Narrative 71
3. A Tale of Two Lettered Cities: Schooling from Ayllu to State 125
4. "Papelito Manda": The Power of Writing 153
5. Power over Writing: Academy and Ayllu 182
6. Writing and the Rehearsal of the Past 221
7. Village and Diaspora as Deterritorialized Library 261
Conclusions 285
Appendix. Examples of Document Genres 297
Notes 301
References 311
Index 351