Creating Context in Andean Cultures

by Howard-Malverde, Rosaleen

• ISBN13: 9780195109146
• ISBN10: 0195109147
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--dance, rituals, pottery, the social use of space, et al--cannot help but fundamentally alter the meaning of the living words and deeds of the culture in question. Consequently, recent researchers have developed more dialogic methods for collecting, interpreting, and presenting data. These new techniques have yielded much success for anthropologists working in Latin America, especially in their efforts to understand how economically, politically, and socially subordinated groups use culture and language to resist the dominant national culture and to assert a distinct historical identity. This collection addresses these issues of "texts" and textuality as it explores various Latin American languages and cultures.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
A Note on Orthography	p. xiii
Introduction: Between Text and Context in the Evocation of Culture	p. 3
Textualising Histories and Identities in Cultural Performances
Peruvian Independence Day: Ritual, Memory, and the Erasure of Narrative	p. 21
Saint Rose through the Eyes of Her Devotees: From Flower of Lima to Mother of Carhuamayo	p. 45
The Art of Ethnic Militancy: Theatre and Indigenous Consciousness in Colombia	p. 55
Multiple Media: Ritual, Weaving, and the Making of Meanings
When Pebbles Move Mountains: lconicity and Symbolism in Quechua Ritual	p. 73
Cultural Transpositions: Writing about Rites in the Llama Corral	p. 85
Making Men in Her Own Image: Gender, Text, and Textile in Qaqachaka	p. 99
Inside the Text: Processes of Textualisation in Written Quechua Discourse
Spatial Reference and Speaker Orientation in Early Colonial Quechua	p. 135
Point of View and Evidentiality in the Huarochiri Texts (Peru, 17th Century)	p. 149
Orality and Literacies as Reflexes of Colonisation and Resistance
Writing from Within: Indigenous Epistolary Practices in the Colonial Period	p. 171
On the Margin: Letter Exchauge among Andean Non-Literates	p. 185
The Sound of Light: Emergent Communication through Quechua Shamanic Dialogue	p. 196
Glossary	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 247
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