The metamorphosis of heads
Subtitle: textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes
By: Denise Y. Arnold with Juan de Dios Yapita.
Contributors: Yapita, Juan de Dios.
Series: Illuminations; Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: El rincón de las cabezas.
Table of contents: title: Andean textual polity; title: Colonizing texts and the struggle over meanings; title: Lands, seeds, and letters : the cycles of production and reproduction; title: Cycles of metamorphosis : the children as enemies; title: Warriors and weavers : the pathways of learning in the community; title: The cycles of libations in school rituals; title: Cycles of memory : the Inka's voice; title: Cycles of sound : prayers and the "rain of letters"; title: The corporeality of Kipus : toward a mathematics incarnate; title: Kipu, number, and writing; title: Textual logic in the Andes; title: Toward an Andean textual theory.