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The Metamorphosis of Heads

Textual Struggles, Education, and Land in the Andes

By: Denise Y. Arnold,Juan de Dios Yapita

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The Metamorphosis of Heads

Textual Struggles, Education, and Land in the Andes

By: Denise Y. Arnold,Juan de Dios Yapita

Since the days of the Spanish Conquest, the indigenous populations of Andean Bolivia have struggled to preserve their textile-based writings. This struggle continues today, both in schools and within the larger culture. The Metamorphosis of Heads explores the history and cultural significance of Andean textile writings—weavings and kipus (knotted cords), and their extreme contrasts in form and production from European alphabet-based texts. Denise Arnold examines the subjugation of native texts in favor of European ones through the imposition of homogenized curricula by the Educational Reform Law. As Arnold reveals, this struggle over language and education directly correlates to long-standing conflicts for land ownership and power in the region, since the majority of the more affluent urban population is Spanish speaking, while indigenous languages are spoken primarily among the rural poor. The Metamorphosis of Heads acknowledges the vital importance of contemporary efforts to maintain Andean history and cultural heritage in schools, and shows how indigenous Andean populations have incorporated elements of Western textual practices into their own textual activities.Based on extensive fieldwork over two decades, and historical, anthropological, and ethnographic research, Denise Arnold assembles an original and richly diverse interdisciplinary study. The textual theory she proposes has wider ramifications for studies of Latin America in general, while recognizing the specifically regional practices of indigenous struggles in the face of nation building and economic globalization.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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082297102X

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Heads of State

Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes

By: Denise Y Arnold,Christine A Hastorf

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Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes

By: Denise Y Arnold,Christine A Hastorf

Addresses the importance of the human head in political, ritual and symbolic contexts in the ancient and modern Andes.

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Routledge

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1315427567

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Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain

By: Jerrilynn Denise Dodds

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Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain

By: Jerrilynn Denise Dodds

In analyzing the early medieval architecture of Christian and Islamic Spain, Jerrilynn Dodds explores the principles of artistic response to social and cultural tension, offering an account of that unique artistic experience that set Spain apart from the rest of Europe and established a visual identity born of the confrontation of cultures that perceived one another as alien. Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain covers the Spanish medieval experience from the Visigothic oligarchy to the year 1000, addressing a variety of cases of cultural interchange. It examines the embattled reactive stance of Hispano-Romans to their Visigothic rulers and the Asturian search for a new language of forms to support a political position dissociated from the struggles of a peninsula caught in the grip of a foreign and infidel rule. Dodds then examines the symbolic meaning of the Mozarabic churches of the tenth century and their reflection of the Mozarabs' threatened cultural identity. The final chapter focuses on two cases of artistic interchange between Islamic and Christian builders with a view toward understanding the dynamics of such interchange between conflicting cultures. Dodds concludes with a short account of the beginning of Romanesque architecture in Spain and an analysis of some of the ways in which artistic expression can reveal the subconscious of a culture.

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272

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Penn State University Press

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0271006714

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9780271006710

Ways to the Center

An Introduction to World Religions

By: Denise Lardner Carmody,Terry L. Brink

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Ways to the Center

An Introduction to World Religions

By: Denise Lardner Carmody,Terry L. Brink

Providing comprehensive coverage, WAYS TO THE CENTER: AN INTRODUCTION TO WORLD RELIGIONS, FIFTH EDITION, weaves together rich historical, cultural, and theological detail into structural and philosophical sections that analyze each religion in terms of its views on nature, society, self and ultimate reality. The text is designed to facilitate critical thinking and is centered on how today's students learn.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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053451958X

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9780534519582

The Metamorphosis of Heads

Textual Struggles, Education, and Land in the Andes

By: Denise Y. Arnold,Juan de Dios Yapita

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Textual Struggles, Education, and Land in the Andes

By: Denise Y. Arnold,Juan de Dios Yapita

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Heads of State

Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes

By: Denise Y Arnold,Christine A Hastorf

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Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes

By: Denise Y Arnold,Christine A Hastorf

The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean history. Scholars have spoken of captured and trophy heads, curated crania, symbolic flying heads, head imagery on pots and on stone, head-shaped vessels, and linguistic references to the head. In this synthesizing work, cultural anthropologist Denise Arnold and archaeologist Christine Hastorf examine the cult of heads in the Andes—past and present—to develop a theory of its place in indigenous cultural practice and its relationship to political systems. Using ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork, highland-lowland comparisons, archival documents, oral histories, and ritual texts, the authors draw from Marx, Mauss, Foucault, Assadourian, Viveiros del Castro and other theorists to show how heads shape and symbolize power, violence, fertility, identity, and economy in South American cultures.

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1315427559

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