Howard-Malverde Rosaleen (Editor). Creating Context in Andean Cultures

Oxford University Press, 1997. — xvi, 255 pages. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-19-509789-0; ISBN: 0-19-510914-7.A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--dance, rituals, pottery, the social use of space, et al--cannot help but fundamentally alter the meaning of the living words and deeds of the culture in question. Consequently, recent researchers have developed more dialogic methods for collecting, interpreting, and presenting data. These new techniques have yielded much success for anthropologists working in Latin America, especially in their efforts to understand how economically, politically, and socially subordinated groups use culture and language to resist the dominant national culture and to assert a distinct historical identity. This collection addresses these issues of "texts" and textuality as it explores various Latin American languages and cultures.Introduction: Between Text and Context in the Evocation of Culture
Textualising Histories and Identities in Cultural Performances
Peruvian Independence Day: Ritual, Memory, and the Erasure of Narrative
Saint Rose through the Eyes of Her Devotees: From Flower of Lima to Mother o f Carhuamayo
The Art of Ethnic Militancy: Theatre and Indigenous Consciousness in Colombia
Multiple Media: Ritual, Weaving, and the Making of Meanings
When Pebbles Move Mountains: Iconicity and Symbolism in Quechua Ritual
Cultural Transpositions: Writing about Rites in the Llama Corral
Making Men in Her Own Image: Gender, Text, an d Textile in Qaqachaka
Inside the Text; Processes of Textualisation in Written Quechua Discourse
Spatial Reference and Speaker Orientation in Early Colonial Quechua
Point of View and Evidentially in the Huarochin Texts (Peru, 17th Century)
Orality and Literacies as Reflexes of Colonisation and Resistance
Writing from Within: Indigenous Epistolary Practices in the Colonial Period
On the Margin: Letter Exchange among Andean Non-Literates
The Sound of Light: Emergent Communication through Quechua Shamanic Dialogue