Knowledge and learning in the Andes : ethnographic perspectives /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Liverpool Latin American studies ; new ser., 3 Liverpool Latin American studies ; new ser., 3.
Subject:	Indians of South America -- Education -- Andes Region. Education -- Andes Region. Education. Indians of South America -- Education. Intellectual life. Andes Region -- Intellectual life. Andes Region.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11220878

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Other authors / contributors:	Stobart, Henry, 1958- Howard, Rosaleen.
ISBN:	1417568119 9781417568116 9781846313424 1846313422 9781781386842 1781386846 9780853235187 085323518X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Knowledge and learning in the Andes. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002 085323518X

Table of Contents:

Title Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Multiple Media 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; 2: Transmission of Knowledge through Textiles: Weaving and Learning How to Live; 3: Coloured Knowledges: Colour Perception and the Dissemination of Knowledge in Isluga, Northern Chile; 4: Interlocking Realms: Knowing Music and Musical Knowing in the Bolivian Andes; Part II: Knowledge, Power and Authority.

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