Knowledge and Learning in the Andes
Ethnographic Perspectives
Published on 1. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-85323-518-7 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of this book is to explore the current research into the ways in which Andean peoples create, transmit, maintain and transform their knowledge in culturally significant ways, and how processes of teaching and learning relate to these. The contributions, from eminent researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and linguistics, include cross-disciplinary approaches, and cover a diverse geographic area from Ecuador to Peru, Bolivia and Northern Chile. The case studies reflect on the variously harmonious and conflictive relationships between knowledge, power, communicative media and cultural identities in Andean societies, from within local, national and global perspectives.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85323-518-7 (9780853235187)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Dr Henry Stobart is Reader in Music/Ethnomusicology in the Music Department of Royal Holloway, he is the founder and co-ordinator of the UK Latin American Music Seminar, Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and Committee Member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. Professor Rosaleen Howard is Chair of Hispanic Studies at Newcastle University.
Content
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Introduction
Rosaleen Howard, Francoise Barbira-Freedman and Henry Stobart
Part I: Multiple Media in the Creation and Transmission of Knowledge
1 Yachay: The Tragedia del fin de Atahuallpa as evidence of the
Colonisation of Knowledge in the Andes
Rosaleen Howard
2 Transmission of Knowledge through Textiles: Weaving and Learning How to Live
Lindsey Crickmay
3 Coloured Knowledge: Colour Perception and the Dissemination
of Knowledge in Isluga, Northern Chile
Penny Dransart
4 Interlocking Realms: Knowing Music and Musical Knowing in the Bolivian Andes
Henry Stobart
Part II: Knowledge, Power and Authority
5 Coming to Power: Knowledge, Learning and Historic Pathways
to Authority in a Bolivian Community
Astvaldur Astvaldsson
6 Juggling Knowledge, Juggling Power: The Role of the
Professional Indigenous Activist in San Pablo, Ecuador
Janet Lloyd
Part III: Conflicting Paradigms of Knowledge
7 Why Nazario is Leaving School: Community Perspectives on Formal Schooling in Rural Bolivia
Pedro Plaza Martinez
Local Knowledge in Health: The Case of Andean Midwifery
Barbara Bradby
9 Learning and Re-Learning How to Plant: The Impact of New Crops on the Spread and Control of New Agricultural Knowledge in the Ecuadorian Andes
Nicole Bourque
Index
List of contributors
Introduction
Rosaleen Howard, Francoise Barbira-Freedman and Henry Stobart
Part I: Multiple Media in the Creation and Transmission of Knowledge
1 Yachay: The Tragedia del fin de Atahuallpa as evidence of the
Colonisation of Knowledge in the Andes
Rosaleen Howard
2 Transmission of Knowledge through Textiles: Weaving and Learning How to Live
Lindsey Crickmay
3 Coloured Knowledge: Colour Perception and the Dissemination
of Knowledge in Isluga, Northern Chile
Penny Dransart
4 Interlocking Realms: Knowing Music and Musical Knowing in the Bolivian Andes
Henry Stobart
Part II: Knowledge, Power and Authority
5 Coming to Power: Knowledge, Learning and Historic Pathways
to Authority in a Bolivian Community
Astvaldur Astvaldsson
6 Juggling Knowledge, Juggling Power: The Role of the
Professional Indigenous Activist in San Pablo, Ecuador
Janet Lloyd
Part III: Conflicting Paradigms of Knowledge
7 Why Nazario is Leaving School: Community Perspectives on Formal Schooling in Rural Bolivia
Pedro Plaza Martinez
Local Knowledge in Health: The Case of Andean Midwifery
Barbara Bradby
9 Learning and Re-Learning How to Plant: The Impact of New Crops on the Spread and Control of New Agricultural Knowledge in the Ecuadorian Andes
Nicole Bourque
Index