UID:
almafu_9959677301702883
Format:
1 online resource (391 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-30384-1
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9786613303844
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0-8223-9434-0
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction: Peru and the ethnography of writing -- An Andean community writes itself -- From khipu to narrative -- A tale of two lettered cities: schooling from ayllu to state -- "Papelito manda": the power of writing -- Power over writing: academy and ayllu -- Writing and the rehearsal of the past -- Village and diaspora as deterritorialized library.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5044-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5027-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822394341
