Title The lettered mountain : a Peruvian village's way with writing / Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia

Published Durham [N.C] : Duke University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Writing -- Peru -- Tupicocha Literacy -- Peru -- Tupicocha Sociolinguistics -- Peru -- Tupicocha Indians of South America -- Peru -- Tupicocha -- Language BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Literacy Sociolinguistics Writing Schriftlichkeit Peru -- Tupicocha Tupicocha Peru. Form Electronic book Author Niño-Murcia, Mercedes. ISBN 9780822394341 0822394340 1283303841 9781283303842 9786613303844 6613303844

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