Creating Context in Andean Cultures

by Howard-Malverde, Rosaleen

• ISBN13: 9780195097894
• ISBN10: 0195097890
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection of previously unpublished papers explores variousindigenous Andean languages and cultures in the context of new anthropologicalthinking about "texts" and textuality. The contributors focus on the wayssocially subordinated cultural groups construct distinctive historicalidentities.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi	(2)
A Note on Orthography	xiii
1 Introduction: Between Text and Context in the Evocation of Culture	3	(18)
ROSALEEN HOWARD-MALVERDE
I Texualising Histories and Identities in Cultural Performances	21	(52)
2 Peruvian Independence Day: Ritual, Memory, and the Erasure of Narrative	21	(24)
PENELOPE HARVEY
3 Saint Rose through the Eyes of Her Devotees: From Flower of Lima to Mother of Carhuamayo	45	(10)
LUIS MILLONES
4 The Art of Ethnic Militancy: Theatre and Indigenous Consciousness in Colombia	55	(18)
JOANNE RAPPAPORT
II Multiple Media: Ritual, Weaving, and the Making of Meanings	73	(62)
5 When Pebbles Move Mountains: Iconicity and Symbolism in Quechua Ritual	73	(12)
CATHERINE J. ALLEN
6 Cultural Transpositions: Writing about Rites in the Llama Corral	85	(14)
PENNY DRANSART
7 Making Men in Her Own Image: Gender, Text, and Textile in Qaqachaka	99	(36)
DENISE ARNOLD
III Inside the Text: Processes of Textualisation in Written Quechua Discourse	135	(36)
8 Spatial Reference and Speaker Orientation in Early Colonial Quechua	135	(14)
WILLEM F. H. ADELAAR
9 Point of View and Evidentiality in the Huarochiri Texts (Peru, 17th Century)	149	(22)
SABINE DEDENBACH-SALAZAR SAENZ
IV Orality and Literacies as Reflexes of Colonisation and Resistance	171	(56)
10 Writing from Within: Indigenous Epistolary Practices in the Colonial Period	171	(14)
MARTIN LIENHARD
11 On the Margin: Letter Exchange among Andean Non-Literates	185	(11)
SARAH LUND
12 The Sound of Light: Emergent Communication through Quechua Shamanic Dialogue	196	(31)
TRISTAN PLATT
Glossary	227	(4)
Bibliography	231	(16)
Index	247