One of the great repositories of a people's world view and religious beliefs, the Huarochiri Manuscript may bear comparison with such civilization-defining works as Gilgamesh, the Popul Vuh, and the Sagas. This translation by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste marks the first time the Huarochiri Manuscript has been translated into English, making it available to English-speaking students of Andean culture and world mythology and religions.
The Huarochiri Manuscript holds a summation of native Andean religious tradition and an image of the superhuman and...
One of the great repositories of a people's world view and religious beliefs, the Huarochiri Manuscript may bear comparison with such civilization-...
By the time of Columbus, the people of Ecuador??'s tropical highlands had created small but remarkably complex and interlinked political societies. These small societies for many years proved able to fight off the overwhelming might of the Inca state. But around 1500 they fell to Inca invaders who, in turn, soon lost their dominion to Spanish warlords. Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies. Their structure before and during the Inca interlude reveals diversity in the Andean world. Salomon provides remarkable...
By the time of Columbus, the people of Ecuador??'s tropical highlands had created small but remarkably complex and interlinked political societies. Th...
First written in 1570, this work now published for the first time in modern Spanish with an English translation sheds light on the Inqa (Inca) world. The writing of Instruccion followed more than a decade of negotiations and skirmishes between Inqa rebels and Spanish officials who were receiving their orders from Spain to find a diplomatic, or alternatively violent, solution to integrate these independently governed territories under Spanish colonial rule.
First written in 1570, this work now published for the first time in modern Spanish with an English translation sheds light on the Inqa (Inca) world. ...
None of the world s lost writings have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon breaks new ground with a close ethnography of one Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day. The quipocamayos, as the villagers call them, form a sacred patrimony. Keying his reading to the internal life of the ancient kin...
None of the world s lost writings have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peo...
None of the world s lost writings have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon breaks new ground with a close ethnography of one Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day. The quipocamayos, as the villagers call them, form a sacred patrimony. Keying his reading to the internal life of the ancient kin...
None of the world s lost writings have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peo...
Examines how Amerindian graphic codes interacted with alphabetic writing in the colonial polities of the Americas. This title focuses on colonial interactions in North America, Mesoamerica, and South America, and on how both alphabets and indigenous systems helped form the basis of colonial control and resistance.
Examines how Amerindian graphic codes interacted with alphabetic writing in the colonial polities of the Americas. This title focuses on colonial inte...
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 Nino-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 Huarochiri. The region has a special place in the history of Latin American letters as the home of the...
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 ...
This book is designed to interrogate theories in the anthropology of religion through a consideration of the ritual practices and belief systems of the Andean community of Rapaz. The book demonstrates how detailed ethnographic research of a specific religious tradition can illuminate multiple, competing and complementary approaches to the anthropology of religion.
Salomon's style allows for an appraisal of classical approaches in the anthropology of religion whilst simultaneously providing an effective means to critically evaluate the more recent ontological turn....
This book is designed to interrogate theories in the anthropology of religion through a consideration of the ritual practices and belief systems of...
This book is designed to interrogate theories in the anthropology of religion through a consideration of the ritual practices and belief systems of the Andean community of Rapaz. The book demonstrates how detailed ethnographic research of a specific religious tradition can illuminate multiple, competing and complementary approaches to the anthropology of religion.
Salomon's style allows for an appraisal of classical approaches in the anthropology of religion whilst simultaneously providing an effective means to critically evaluate the more recent ontological turn....
This book is designed to interrogate theories in the anthropology of religion through a consideration of the ritual practices and belief systems of...
