Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: between text and context in the evocation of culture / Rosaleen Howard-Malverde
  • Peruvian Independence Day: ritual, memory, and the erasure of narrative / Penelope Harvey
  • Saint Rose through the eyes of her devotees: from Flower of Lima to Mother of Carhuamayo / Luis Millones
  • The art of ethnic militancy: theatre and indigenous consciousness in Colombia / Joanne Rappaport
  • When pebbles move mountains: iconicity and symbolism in Quechua ritual / Catherine J. Allen
  • Cultural transpositions: writing about rites in the llama corral / Penny Dransart
  • Making men in her own image: gender, text, and textile in Qaqachaka / Denise Arnold
  • Spatial reference and speaker orientation in early colonial Quechua / Willem F.H. Adelaar
  • Point of view and evidentiality in the Huarochirí texts (Peru, 17th century) / Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz
  • Writing from within: indigenous epistolary practices in the colonial period / Martin Lienhard
  • On the margin: letter exchange among Andean non-literates / Sarah Lund
  • The sound of light: emergent communication through Quechua shamanic dialogue / Tristan Platt.