Magical Writing In Salasaca: Literacy And Power In Highland EcuadorRoutledge, 27 avr. 2018 - 192 pages This book demonstrates that the beliefs about writing reflect extensive contact with birth certificates, baptism records, and other church and state documents. It reviews Ecuadorian history to identify the specific documentation sources that have most influenced beliefs in the witch's book. |
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... Cultural Change in Kenya, Lee J. Cronk (Rutgers University) Namoluk Beyond the Reef The Transformation of a Micronesian Community, Mac Marshall (University of Iowa) Magical Writing in Salasaca Literacy and Power in Highland Ecuador.
... Cultural Change in Kenya, Lee J. Cronk (Rutgers University) Namoluk Beyond the Reef The Transformation of a Micronesian Community, Mac Marshall (University of Iowa) Magical Writing in Salasaca Literacy and Power in Highland Ecuador.
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... turns out that Salasacas treat San Gonzalo with as much respect and fear as skepticism and resentment. The saint is thus shown to provide a projection screen and a social channel for salient cultural concerns X Series Editor Preface.
... turns out that Salasacas treat San Gonzalo with as much respect and fear as skepticism and resentment. The saint is thus shown to provide a projection screen and a social channel for salient cultural concerns X Series Editor Preface.
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... cultural concerns with equality and envy, power and social identity. Wogan goes on to show how Christianity, a colonial legacy, and current bureaucracies have played into the development of a tradition of magical literacy in Salasaca ...
... cultural concerns with equality and envy, power and social identity. Wogan goes on to show how Christianity, a colonial legacy, and current bureaucracies have played into the development of a tradition of magical literacy in Salasaca ...
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... cultural if they don't want their proposals to fail.2 Moreover, de Soto's calculations demonstrate that millions of people around the world are caught up in a cat-andmouse game with the state and other bureaucracies. It behooves us, on ...
... cultural if they don't want their proposals to fail.2 Moreover, de Soto's calculations demonstrate that millions of people around the world are caught up in a cat-andmouse game with the state and other bureaucracies. It behooves us, on ...
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... cultural phenomena. Along with other anthropologists, my goal is to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Starting with the former, in the next section of this chapter I recount several stories about the Salasacas ...
... cultural phenomena. Along with other anthropologists, my goal is to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Starting with the former, in the next section of this chapter I recount several stories about the Salasacas ...
Table des matières
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2 WITCHCRAFT AND WRITING | 27 |
3 SOURCES OF MAGICAL BELIEFS | 49 |
4 GODS BOOK | 75 |
5 THE DAY OF THE DEAD | 97 |
6 WEAVING AND WRITING | 117 |
7 CONCLUSION | 145 |
References | 153 |
Index | 169 |
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Magical Writing in Salasaca: Literacy and Power in Highland Ecuador Peter Wogan Aucun aperçu disponible - 2019 |
Magical Writing In Salasaca: Literacy And Power In Highland Ecuador Peter Wogan Aucun aperçu disponible - 2009 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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