Knowledge and Learning in the Andes Ethnographic Perspectives

by Stobart, Henry; Howard, Rosaleen

• ISBN13: 9780853235187
• ISBN10: 085323518X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

The aim of this book is to explore the current research into the ways in which Andean peoples create, transmit, maintain and transform their knowledge in culturally significant ways, and how processes of teaching and learning relate to these. The contributions, from eminent researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and linguistics, include cross-disciplinary approaches, and cover a diverse geographic area from Ecuador to Peru, Bolivia and Northern Chile. The case studies reflect on the variously harmonious and conflictive relationships between knowledge, power, communicative media and cultural identities in Andean societies, from within local, national and global perspectives.

Author Biography

Astvaldur Astvaldsson is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool L. Nicole Bourque is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Glasgow Barbara Bradby teaches sociology at Trinity College, Dublin, in Ireland Lindsey Crickmay has a doctorate in Amerindian Studies from the University of St Andrews where she teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology Penny Dransart is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Wales, Lampeter Rosaleen Howard is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Linguistics at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool Janet Lloyd completed a doctorate in social anthropology at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool in 1998 Pedro Plaza Martinez is Lecturer and Researcher on the PROEIBANDES Masters Program in Intercultural Bilingual Education, San Simon University, Cochabamba, Bolivia Henry Stobart is lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Music Department of Royal Holloway University of London

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Multiple Media in the Creation and Transmission of Knowledge
Yachay: The Tragedia del fin de Atahuallpa as Evidence of the Colonisation of Knowledge in the Andes	p. 17
Transmission of Knowledge through Textiles: Weaving and Learning How to Live	p. 40
Coloured Knowledges: Colour Perception and the Dissemination of Knowledge in Isluga, Northern Chile	p. 56
Interlocking Realms: Knowing Music and Musical Knowing in the Bolivian Andes	p. 79
Knowledge, Power and Authority
Coming to Power: Knowledge, Learning and Historic Pathways to Authority in a Bolivian Community	p. 109
Juggling Knowledge, Juggling Power: The Role of the Professional Indigenous Activist in San Pablo, Ecuador	p. 127
Conflicting Paradigms of Knowledge
Why Nazario is Leaving School: Community Perspectives on Formal Schooling in Rural Bolivia	p. 141
Local Knowledge in Health: The Case of Andean Midwifery	p. 166
Learning and Re-Learning How to Plant: The Impact of New Crops on the Spread and Control of New Agricultural Knowledge in the Ecuadorian Andes	p. 194
Index	p. 207
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