River of Fleece, River of Song - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook River of Fleece, River of Song write by Denise Y. Arnold. This book was released on 2001. River of Fleece, River of Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Heads of State
Heads of State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heads of State write by Denise Y Arnold. This book was released on 2016-07. Heads of State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addresses the importance of the human head in political, ritual and symbolic contexts in the ancient and modern Andes.
At the Mountains’ Altar
At the Mountains’ Altar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Mountains’ Altar write by Frank Salomon. This book was released on 2018-01-02. At the Mountains’ Altar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belief systems of an Andean community, this book provides students with rich understandings of unfamiliar religious experiences and delivers theories of religion from the realm of abstraction. From core field encounters, each chapter guides readers outward in a different theoretical direction, successively exploring the main paths in the anthropology of religion. As well as addressing classical approaches in the anthropology of religion to rural modernity, Salomon engages with newer currents such as cognitive-evolution models, power-oriented critiques, the ontological reworking of relativism, and the "new materialism" in the context of a deep-rooted Andean ethos. He reflects on central questions such as: Why does sacred ritualism seem almost universal? Is it seated in social power, human psychology, symbolic meanings, or cultural logics? Are varied theories compatible? Is "religion" still a tenable category in the post-colonial world? At the Mountains’ Altar is a valuable resource for students taking courses on the anthropology of religion, Andean cultures, Latin American ethnography, religious studies, and indigenous peoples of the Americas.
The Metamorphosis of Heads
The Metamorphosis of Heads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metamorphosis of Heads write by Denise Y. Arnold. This book was released on 2006-05-07. The Metamorphosis of Heads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the days of the Spanish Conquest, the indigenous populations of Andean Bolivia have struggled to preserve their textile-based writings. This struggle continues today, both in schools and within the larger culture. The Metamorphosis of Heads explores the history and cultural significance of Andean textile writings—weavings and kipus (knotted cords), and their extreme contrasts in form and production from European alphabet-based texts. Denise Arnold examines the subjugation of native texts in favor of European ones through the imposition of homogenized curricula by the Educational Reform Law. As Arnold reveals, this struggle over language and education directly correlates to long-standing conflicts for land ownership and power in the region, since the majority of the more affluent urban population is Spanish speaking, while indigenous languages are spoken primarily among the rural poor. The Metamorphosis of Heads acknowledges the vital importance of contemporary efforts to maintain Andean history and cultural heritage in schools, and shows how indigenous Andean populations have incorporated elements of Western textual practices into their own textual activities.Based on extensive fieldwork over two decades, and historical, anthropological, and ethnographic research, Denise Arnold assembles an original and richly diverse interdisciplinary study. The textual theory she proposes has wider ramifications for studies of Latin America in general, while recognizing the specifically regional practices of indigenous struggles in the face of nation building and economic globalization.
River Song
River Song - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook River Song write by Alison Morgan. This book was released on 1978-01-01. River Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
