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THE POETICS OF KHIPU HIST O RIOGRAPHY : Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva corónica and the Relación de los quipucamayos
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The Andean khipu was a medium of colored knotted cords used to record different types of information in the pre-Columbian and colonial periods as mentioned in this paper, and numer- ous texts written in the colonial period claim to have relied on Khipu as sources of information.Abstract:
The Andean khipu was a medium of colored knotted cords used to record different types of information in the pre-Columbian and colonial periods. Although currently there is no way to read the khipu that have survived, numer- ous texts written in the colonial period claim to have relied on khipu as sources of information. A comparison between two khipu transcriptions of Inca biogra- phies on the one hand and the European biographical genre on the other reveal a distinctly Andean poetics—in the sense of a structural format—with very sug- gestive links to semiotic conventions of the khipu.read more
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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
The darker side of the Renaissance: literacy, terrotoriality, and colonization
Abstract: Winner of the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize."The Darker Side of the Renaissance "weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, geography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World.Walter D. Mignolo locates the privileging of European forms of literacy at the heart of New World colonization. He examines how alphabetic writing is linked with the exercise of power, what role "the book" has played in colonial relations, and the many connections between writing, social organization, and political control. It has long been acknowledged that Amerindians were at a disadvantage in facing European invaders because native cultures did not employ the same kind of texts (hence "knowledge") that were validated by the Europeans. Yet no study until this one has so thoroughly analyzed either the process or the implications of conquest and destruction through sign systems.Starting with the contrasts between Amerindian and European writing systems, Mignolo moves through such topics as the development of Spanish grammar, the different understandings of the book as object and text, principles of genre in history-writing, and an analysis of linguistic descriptions and mapping techniques in relation to the construction of territoriality and understandings of cultural space."The Darker Side of the Renaissance" will significantly challenge commonplace understandings of New World history. More importantly, it will continue to stimulate and provide models for new colonial and post-colonial scholarship.." . . a contribution to Renaissance studies of the first order. The field will have to reckon with it for years to come, for it will unquestionably become the point of departure for discussion not only on the foundations and achievements of the Renaissance but also on the effects and influences on colonized cultures." -- "Journal of Hispanic/ Latino Theology"Walter D. Mignolo is Professor in the Department of Romance Studies and the Program in Literature, Duke University.
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Astrology and Cosmology in Early China: Conforming Earth to Heaven
TL;DR: Astrology for an empire: the treatise on the celestial offices in The Grand Scribe's Records (c.100 BCE) Glossary Index as mentioned in this paper, Section 5.1.
Comptes rendus - Homo Narrans. The poetics and anthropology of oral literature.
J D Niles,L Carruthers +1 more
TL;DR: In "Homo Narrans" as mentioned in this paper, Niles explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell and argues that the need to tell stories is what distinguishes humans from all other living creatures.
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Virtuosas o corruptas: Las mujeres indígenas en las obras de Guamán Poma de Ayala y el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
TL;DR: This article examined the discursos prescriptivos y la retorica del sermon that emplean el Inca Garcilaso and Guaman Poma for hacer una analogia entre las mujeres andinas and las europeas in la historyia de la cristiandad.
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The Archaeology of Knowledge
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the Statement and the Archive and define the Enunciative Function 3. The Description of Staements 4. Contradictions 5. Change and Transformations 6. The Formation of Concepts 7. Conclusion Conclusion Index
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Orality and literacy : the technologizing of the word
TL;DR: Hartley as discussed by the authors discusses the psychodynamics of orality of language in the context of the oral past and present, and the evolution of the human mind from oral to written language.
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The Archaeology of Knowledge.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the Statement and the Archive and define the Enunciative Function 3. The Description of Staements 4. Contradictions 5. Change and Transformations 6. The Formation of Concepts 7. Conclusion Conclusion Index
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Speech genres and other late essays
TL;DR: Holquist as mentioned in this paper discusses the history of realism and the role of the Bildungsroman in the development of the novel in Linguistics, philosophy, and the human sciences.
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Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the anti-conquest and the mystique of reciprocity in the contact zone of science and sentiment, 1750-1800, and the reinvention of America, 1800-50.