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Format: 1 online resource (336 p.) : , 54 b&w photographs, 27 illustrations

ISBN: 9780822379263

Content: The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread notions of literacy and dominant views of art and literature, history and geography. Asking how knowledge was encoded and preserved in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Mesoamerican cultures, the authors focus on systems of writing that did not strive to represent speech. Their work reveals the complicity of ideology in the history of literacy, and offers new insight into the history of writing.The contributors--who include art historians, anthropologists, and literary theorists--examine the ways in which ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples conveyed meaning through hieroglyphic, pictorial, and coded systems, systems inseparable from the ideologies they were developed to serve. We see, then, how these systems changed with the European invasion, and how uniquely colonial writing systems came to embody the post-conquest American ideologies. The authors also explore the role of these early systems in religious discourse and their relation to later colonial writing.Bringing the insights from Mesoamerica and the Andes to bear on a fundamental exchange among art history, literary theory, semiotics, and anthropology, the volume reveals the power contained in the medium of writing.Contributors. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tom Cummins, Stephen Houston, Mark B. King, Dana Leibsohn, Walter D. Mignolo, John Monaghan, John M. D. Pohl, Joanne Rappaport, Peter van der Loo

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface and Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge -- , Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya: A Comparative Perspective -- , Aztec Pictorial Histories: Records without Words -- , Voicing the Painted Image: A Suggestion for Reading the Reverse of the Codex Cospi -- , The Text in the Body, the Body in the Text: The Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing -- , Hearing the Echoes of Verbal Art in Mixtec Writing -- , Mexican Codices, Maps, and Lienzos as Social Contracts -- , Primers for Memory: Cartographic Histories and Nahua Identity -- , Representation in the Sixteenth Century and the Colonial Image of the Inca -- , Signs and Their Transmission: The Question of the Book in the New World -- , Object and Alphabet: Andean Indians and Documents in the Colonial Period -- , Afterword: Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Situations -- , Index -- , Contributors , In English.

Language: English

Subjects: History , Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures , Romance Studies , Ethnology , General works

Keywords: Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift

DOI: 10.1515/9780822379263

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379263

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379263

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Format: 1 online resource (248 p.) : , 30 photographs, 1 map, 1 figure

ISBN: 9780822377351

Series Statement: Narrating Native Histories

Content: The Colombian activist Juan Gregorio Palechor (1923–1992) dedicated his life to championing indigenous rights in Cauca, a department in the southwest of Colombia, where he helped found the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca. Recounting his life story in collaboration with the Colombian anthropologist Myriam Jimeno, Palechor traces his political awakening, his experiences in national politics, the disillusionment that resulted, and his turn to a more radical activism aimed at confronting ethnic discrimination and fighting for indigenous territorial and political sovereignty.Palechor's lively memoir is complemented by Jimeno's reflections on autobiography as an anthropological tool and on the oppressive social and political conditions faced by Colombia's indigenous peoples. A faithful and fluent transcription of Palechor's life story, this work is a uniquely valuable resource for understanding the contemporary indigenous rights movements in Colombia.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Foreword -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Part 1. Narrations, Life Stories, and Autobiographies -- , For Those Who Come After -- , The Anthropological Narrative as Dialogue -- , Life Stories, Biographies, and Autobiographies -- , Recovering the Subaltern Vision -- , Reality, Experience, and Expression: The Authorship of Oral Histories -- , Debates on Technique in Life Stories -- , Part 2. Juan Gregorio Palechor: Between the Community and the Nation -- , Identity and Ethnic Re-creation -- , Ethnicity as a Social Relation -- , The Limits of Diversity and Ethnic Recognition -- , Juan Gregorio Palechor: Between the Community and the Nation -- , Cauca, the Resguardo of Guachicono, and Indigenous Movements -- , Identity and the Struggle for the Resguardo -- , A Politics of Our Own and the Reinvention of Identity -- , Part 3. Juan Gregorio Palechor: The Story of My Life -- , Where I Come From: Five Generations of the Macizo Colombiano and Guachicono -- , Recognizing the Way of the World and Observing the Weather -- , Life on the Resguardo -- , Our Nervousness about School and What We Were Taught -- , The Harshness of Family Life and the Art of Agriculture -- , When I Was Conscripted -- , Learning New Things -- , Public Life and Political Violence -- , During the Violence, I Was Forced by Necessity to Work as a Tinterillo -- , The Formation of Community Action Committees: The Liberal Revolutionary Movement and the National Front -- , Religion, Money, and Politics -- , Working with the MRL and the Political Parties -- , The Management Class of the Catholic Religion -- , Looking for an Organization: The Campesino Association and the Indigenous Organization -- , My Work in CRIC -- , The Struggles of CRIC and Indigenous Traditions -- , Politiqueros and Their Empty Words -- , Why an Organization of Indigenous People? -- , Appendix: CRIC Documents -- , Glossary -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.1515/9780822377351

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822377351

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822377351

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822377351

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822377351

URL: Volltext

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822377351?locatt=mode:legacy

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Format: 1 online resource (376 p.) : , 5 illustrations

ISBN: 9780822385332

Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Content: Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of eighteenth-century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in present-day Colombia. The editors argue that the construction of an array of singular histories at the intersection of particular colonialisms and nationalisms must become the critical project of postcolonial history-writing.Challenging the universalizing tendencies of postcolonial theory as it has developed in the Anglophone academy, the contributors are attentive to the crucial ways in which the histories of Latin American countries—with their creole elites, hybrid middle classes, subordinated ethnic groups, and complicated historical relationships with Spain and the United States—differ from those of other former colonies in the southern hemisphere. Yet, while acknowledging such differences, the volume suggests a host of provocative, critical connections to colonial and postcolonial histories around the world.ContributorsThomas AbercrombieShahid AminJorge Cañizares-EsguerraPeter GuardinoAndrés GuerreroMarixa LassoJavier Morillo-AliceaJoanne RappaportMauricio Tenorio-TrilloMark Thurner

Note: Frontmatter -- , About the Series -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Foreword -- , 1. ESCRITURA. On Imagining/Writing Postcolonial Histories -- , Point and Counterpoint -- , After Spanish Rule: Writing Another After -- , Essaying the History of National Images -- , 2. POETICA. Knowledges, Nations, Histories -- , Postcolonialism avante la lettre? Travelers and Clerics in Eighteenth- Century Colonial Spanish America -- , ‘‘Aquel laberinto de oficinas’’: Ways of Knowing Empire in Late- Nineteenth-Century Spain -- , Peruvian Genealogies of History and Nation -- , Mothers and Mistresses of the Urban Bolivian Public Sphere: Postcolonial Predicament and National Imaginary in Oruro’s Carnival -- , 3. POLITICA. Governmentalities, States, Subjects -- , Revisiting Independence Day: Afro-Colombian Politics and Creole Patriot Narratives, Cartagena, 1809–1815 -- , Postcolonialism as Self-Fulfilled Prophecy? Electoral Politics in Oaxaca, 1814–1828 -- , The Administration of Dominated Populations under a Regime of Customary Citizenship: The Case of Postcolonial Ecuador -- , Redrawing the Nation: Indigenous Intellectuals and Ethnic Pluralism in Contemporary Colombia -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822385332

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385332

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822385332

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385332

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822385332