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The cord keepers : khipus and cultural life in a Peruvian village / Frank Salomon.

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An ethnography of Andean knot writing, where media convey information without an alphabet or any other visual likeness of speech, examining the ways that such "mute inscription" communicates social experience.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: Salomon, Frank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2004.
Series:Latin America otherwise.
Subjects:
Quipu > Peru > Huarochirí (Province) > History.
Quechua Indians > Peru > Huarochirí (Province) > History.
Quechua philosophy > Peru > Huarochirí (Province)
Quechua Indians > Peru > Huarochirí (Province) > Social life and customs.
Huarochirí (Peru : Province) > History.
Huarochirí (Peru : Province) > Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Quechua Indians.
Quechua Indians > Social life and customs.
Quechua philosophy.
Quipu.
Peru > Huarochirí (Province)
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Unread Legacy: An Introduction to Tupicocha's Khipu Problem, and anthropology's
  • 1. Universes of the Legible and Theories of Writing
  • 2. A Flowery Script: The Social and Documentary Order of Modern Tupicocha Village
  • 3. Living by the Book of the Thousand: Community, Ayllu and Customary Governance
  • 4. The Tupicochan Staff Code
  • 5. The Khipu Art after the Inkas
  • 6. The Patrimonial Quipocamayos of Tupicocha
  • 7. Ayllu Cords and Ayllu Books
  • 8. The Half-life and Afterlife of an Andean Medium: How Modern Villagers Interpret Quipocamayos
  • 9. Toward Synthetic Interpretation.

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