Rappaport / Cummins Beyond the Lettered City

Indigenous Literacies in the Andes
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9475-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 396 Seiten

Reihe: Narrating native histories

This book extends the conception of literacy beyond the written word to incorporate the visual. Focusing on the period of colonization in the Andean region the authors argue that the European cultural literacy that they imposed on the indigenous population was not just a tool for oppression and control but was used by the local people as a means to assert their own cultural identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rappaport, Joanne

Cummins, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series ix

List of Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

1. Imagining Colonial Culture 27

2. Genre/Gender/Género: "Que no es uno ni otro, ni está claro" 53

3. The Indigenous Lettered City 113

4. Genres in Action 153

5. The King's Quillca and the Rituality of Literacy 191

6. Reorienting the Colonial Body: Space and the Imposition of Literacy 219

Conclusion 251

Glossary 259

Notes 263

References Cited 317

Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Anthropology and of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. She is the author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia, also published by Duke University Press.Thomas Cummins is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art at Harvard University. He is the author of Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Quero Vessels.