{"product_id":"the-lettered-mountain-9780822350446","title":"The Lettered Mountain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on the analysis of community records in a Peruvian village, The Lettered Mountain tells how Andean peasants thought to be illiterate appropriated the Roman alphabet long ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Lettered Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to become a classic. Tracing the deep and rich history of writing and text production from the time of the Inka Empire to the present day, Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia have written a work that will transform our understanding of the nature, implications, and the consequences of literacy in communities that have, until now, been assumed to be outside the realm of the ‘lettered.’ It is a fascinating and highly stimulating read.”—\u003cb\u003eGary Urton\u003c\/b\u003e, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Lettered Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e should surprise many readers. Frank Salomon’s and Mercedes Niño-Murcia’s arguments concerning the passage from \u003ci\u003ekhipu\u003c\/i\u003e to alphabetic literacy and the deep roots of alphabetic writing in rural Peru challenge traditional ethnographic portraits of Andean culture as exclusively oral. Their case for refocusing our attention away from schooled literacy and toward forms of legal literacy whose origins go back to the colonial period is backed by insightful ethnography. \u003ci\u003eThe Lettered Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e forces us to see the Andes in a new light, without losing sight of the themes that were important to Andeanists in the past.”—\u003cb\u003eJoanne Rappaport\u003c\/b\u003e, co-author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A]s the first ethnography of local writing and archiving practices, [\u003ci\u003eThe Lettered Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e] does a marvelous job of describing the centrality of literacy to Andean societies of past and present…With Salomon and Niño-Murcia’s important ethnography, ignoring Andean writing is no longer possible.” -- S. Elizabeth Penry * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Lettered Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia explore the evolution of alphabetic literacy in Andean villages, providing a valuable historical overview of this theme from Inka times to the present…. It is further evidence of the complex interplay between socio-political conditions and epistemology and how “Western” visions of modernity are now under siege the world over.” -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Lettered Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e provides historians with a rich template for understanding how peasant archives are constructed in the Andes.\" -- Alan Durston * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e“Simply put, \u003ci\u003eThe Lettered Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully written book and a must read for those interested in multiple literacies, historiography, and ethnography, as well as colonial and contemporary Latin America.” -- Judy Kalman * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations xi\u003cbr\u003e Tables xv\u003cbr\u003e Preface xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Peru and the Ethnography of Writing 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. An Andean Community Writes Itself 31\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Khipu to Narrative 71\u003cbr\u003e 3. A Tale of Two Lettered Cities: Schooling from Ayllu to State 125\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Papelito Manda\": The Power of Writing 153\u003cbr\u003e 5. Power over Writing: Academy and Ayllu 182\u003cbr\u003e 6. Writing and the Rehearsal of the Past 221\u003cbr\u003e 7. Village and Diaspora as Deterritorialized Library 261\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions 285\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. Examples of Document Genres 297\u003cbr\u003e Notes 301\u003cbr\u003e References 311\u003cbr\u003e Index 351","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406066458967,"sku":"9780822350446","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822350446.jpg?v=1730494412","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-lettered-mountain-9780822350446","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}