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“The question isn’t is art up to this but what else is art for?”Some of These Daze Charles Bernstein (b. 1950) NYC: Granary Books, 2005 PS3552 E7327 S65 2005Drawings by Mimi Gross. From the publisher’s website: “Beginning on September 22, 2001, Mimi Gross filled five sketchbooks with ink...

“It is a prayer for the rebirth of a way of writing with breath.”CHANCCANI QUIPU Cecilia Vicuña New York: Granary Books, 2012Quipu, or knotted cords, encoded the spoken language of the Inca, representing both single sounds and whole words, and was used as a form of communication...

These commentaries are excerpts from an assigned project for Humanities4900/6900, “Indigenous Peoples: Social and Cultural Perspectives,” taught by Isabel Dulfano, Spring semester 2016. Students studied demographics, Mayan epigraphy, Incan kipu, archaeology, linguistics and other topics as an interdisciplinary approach to critically expanding their understanding of...