Salomon / Nino-Murcia The Lettered Mountain

A Peruvian Village’s Way with Writing
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9434-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Based on the analysis of community records in a Peruvian village, The Lettered Mountain tells how Andean peasants thought to be illiterate appropriated the Roman alphabet long ago.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salomon, Frank L.

Nino-Murcia, Mercedes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.