Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes by Rappaport, Joanne
Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes by Rappaport, Joanne

Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes

In Beyond the Lettered City, the anthropologist Joanne Rappaport and the art historian Tom Cummins examine the...
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Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes by Rappaport, Joanne

Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes

€67,46
Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes by Rappaport, Joanne

Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes

€67,46
Author: Joanne Rappaport
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In Beyond the Lettered City, the anthropologist Joanne Rappaport and the art historian Tom Cummins examine the colonial imposition of alphabetic and visual literacy on indigenous groups in the northern Andes. They consider how the Andean peoples received, maintained, and subverted the conventions of Spanish literacy, often combining them with their own traditions. Indigenous Andean communities neither used narrative pictorial representation nor had alphabetic or hieroglyphic literacy before the arrival of the Spaniards. To absorb the conventions of Spanish literacy, they had to engage with European symbolic systems. Doing so altered their worldviews and everyday lives, making alphabetic and visual literacy prime tools of colonial domination. Rappaport and Cummins advocate a broad understanding of literacy, including not only reading and writing, but also interpretations of the spoken word, paintings, wax seals, gestures, and urban design. By analyzing secular and religious notarial manuals and dictionaries, urban architecture, religious images, catechisms and sermons, and the vast corpus of administrative documents produced by the colonial authorities and indigenous scribes, they expand ngel Rama's concept of the lettered city to encompass many of those who previously would have been considered the least literate.

Author: Joanne Rappaport
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 12/30/2011
Pages: 398
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780822351283


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About the Author

Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Anthropology and of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. She is the author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia, also published by Duke University Press.

Thomas Cummins is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art at Harvard University. He is the author of Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Quero Vessels.


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