Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.
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.
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Creating context in Andean cultures.
Anthropological linguistics-- Andes Region.
Criticism, Textual.
Culture-- Semiotic models.
Discourse analysis, Narrative-- Andes Region.
Quechua language-- Discourse analysis.
Quechua language-- Semantics.
Semantics-- Andes Region.
Anthropological linguistics.
Criticism, Textual.
Culture-- Semiotic models.
Culturele aspecten.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- Native American Languages.