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Author Salomon, Frank.

Title The cord keepers : khipus and cultural life in a Peruvian village / Frank Salomon
Published Durham : Duke University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Latin America otherwise
Latin America otherwise.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject 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
Indians, South American -- history
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Manners and customs
Quechua Indians
Quechua Indians -- Social life and customs
Quechua philosophy
Quipu
Kulturleben
SUBJECT Huarochirí (Peru : Province) -- History
Huarochirí (Peru : Province) -- Social life and customs
Peru
Subject Peru -- Huarochirí (Province)
Provinz Huarochiri
Quechua.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822386179
0822386178
1283023954
9781283023955
9786613023957
6613023957