New Andean Books
Via Ann Peters, llegan unas notas bibliograficas que asumimos son de Dan Sandweiss > The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village’s Way with Writing > Author(s): Frank Salomon, Mercedes Nino-Murcia > 2011 > http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=6996&viewby=author&lastname=Salomon&firstname=Frank&middlename=&sort=newest > > Description > Andean peoples joined the world of alphabetic literacy nearly 500 years ago, yet the history of their literacy has remained hidden until now. In The Lettered Mountain, Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia expand notions of literacy and challenge > stereotypes of Andean “orality” by analyzing the writings of mountain villagers from Inka times to the Internet era. Their historical ethnography is based on extensive research in the village of Tupicocha, in the central Peruvian province of > Huarochirí. The region has a special place in the history of Latin American letters as the home of ...