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Item El quipu: escritura andina en las redes informáticas incaicas y coloniales(2015-06) Tun, MollyIn my dissertation I question the conceptions of writing that surfaced during the colonial period in Peru and argue that the quipu operated as a writing system which was central to the Inca civilization but later marginalized through Spanish colonization. This work brings to the forefront the importance of mathematics and counting in the context of conquest and colonization, as well as possible connections between semiotics and power. This research expands colonial studies by presenting new archival sources within an interdisciplinary approach. Such an analysis of the origins of colonial culture has the potential to re-locate Andean thought within the unilateral colonial power structures, thus changing the way in which minority discourse and indigenous agency is recognized and historicized.Item Persistencia de la cosmovisión y la concepción espacial indígenas en imágenes andinas de la religiosidad cristiana: una descripción de tres objetos culturales de los siglos XVII y XVIII en Perú(2013-09) Pilares, NellyThis dissertation involves an analysis of three Colonial Peruvian texts to argue that the religious images as treated in Guaman Poma de Ayala's Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno ; Juan de Espinosa Medrano's drama El hijo pródigo; and a well-known painting La Virgen del Cerro, reveal the persistence or presence of an Indian worldview; that the Indigenous signs and Inca's distribution of the space have a continued presence within the Andean-Christian religious vision. This work is anchored in a semiotic analysis of theater and painting; in the perspective of cultural hibridity advanced in the work of García Canclini, Gruzinski and Moraña and in the postcolonial perspective of Mignolo and Quijano.