Knowledge and Learning in the Andes
Ethnographic Perspectives
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
272 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2002
The aim of this book is to explore the current research into the ways in which Andean peoples create, transmit, maintain and transform their knowledge in culturally significant ways, and how processes of teaching and learning relate to these. The contributions, from eminent researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and linguistics, include cross-disciplinary approaches, and cover a diverse geographic area from Ecuador to Peru, Bolivia and Northern Chile. The case studies reflect on the variously harmonious and conflictive relationships between knowledge, power, communicative media and cultural identities in Andean societies, from within local, national and global perspectives.
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Introduction - Rosaleen Howard, Françoise Barbira-Freedman and Henry Stobart
PART I: MULTIPLE MEIDA IN THE CREATION AND TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE
1. Yachay: The Tragedia del fin de Atahuallpa as Evidence of the Colonisation of Knowledge in the Andes - Rosaleen Howard
2. Transmission of Knowledge through Textiles: Weaving and Learning How to Live -Lindsey Crickmay
3. Coloured Knowledges: Colour Perception and the Dissemination of Knowledge in Isluga, Northern Chile - Penny Dransart
4. Interlocking Realms: Knowing Music and Musical Knowing in the Bolivian Andes - Henry Stobart
PART II: KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND AUTHORITY
5. Coming to Power: Knowledge, Learning and Historic Pathways to Authority in a Bolivian Community - Astvaldur Astvaldsson
6. Juggling Knowledge, Juggling Power: The Role of the Professional Indigenous Activist in San Pablo, Ecuador - Janet Lloyd
PART III: CONFLICTING PARADIGMS OF KNOWLEDGE
7. Why Nazario is Leaving School: Community Perspectives on Formal Schooling in Rural Bolivia - Pedro Plaza Martínez
8. Local Knowledge in Health: The Case of Andean Midwifery - Barbara Bradby
9. Learning and Re-Learning How to Plant: The Impact of New Crops on the Spread and Control of New Agricultural Knowledge in the Ecuadorian Andes - Nicole Bourque
Index
List of contributors
Introduction - Rosaleen Howard, Françoise Barbira-Freedman and Henry Stobart
PART I: MULTIPLE MEIDA IN THE CREATION AND TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE
1. Yachay: The Tragedia del fin de Atahuallpa as Evidence of the Colonisation of Knowledge in the Andes - Rosaleen Howard
2. Transmission of Knowledge through Textiles: Weaving and Learning How to Live -Lindsey Crickmay
3. Coloured Knowledges: Colour Perception and the Dissemination of Knowledge in Isluga, Northern Chile - Penny Dransart
4. Interlocking Realms: Knowing Music and Musical Knowing in the Bolivian Andes - Henry Stobart
PART II: KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND AUTHORITY
5. Coming to Power: Knowledge, Learning and Historic Pathways to Authority in a Bolivian Community - Astvaldur Astvaldsson
6. Juggling Knowledge, Juggling Power: The Role of the Professional Indigenous Activist in San Pablo, Ecuador - Janet Lloyd
PART III: CONFLICTING PARADIGMS OF KNOWLEDGE
7. Why Nazario is Leaving School: Community Perspectives on Formal Schooling in Rural Bolivia - Pedro Plaza Martínez
8. Local Knowledge in Health: The Case of Andean Midwifery - Barbara Bradby
9. Learning and Re-Learning How to Plant: The Impact of New Crops on the Spread and Control of New Agricultural Knowledge in the Ecuadorian Andes - Nicole Bourque
Index
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