Beyond the Lettered City
Indigenous Literacies in the Andes
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2011
396 pages
978-0-8223-9475-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
58 b&w illustrations, 2 charts, 9 color plates
58 b&w illustrations, 2 charts, 9 color plates
File size
4,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-9475-4 (9780822394754)
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Persons
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.
Content
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
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
