The cord keepers: khipus and cultural life in a Peruvian village
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Main Author: Salomon, Frank (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2004
Series:Latin America otherwise
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179
https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-315) and index. - Description based on print version record
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 331 Seiten, [8] Seiten of plates) Illustrationen (some color), Karten
ISBN:9780822386179
0822386178
DOI:10.1215/9780822386179