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Record Nr.

UNISA996248044403316

Autore

Salomon Frank

Titolo

The cord keepers [[electronic resource] ] : khipus and cultural life in a Peruvian village / / Frank Salomon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-8223-8617-8

9786613023957

1-283-02395-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

Latin America otherwise

Disciplina

985/.00498323

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Huarochirí (Peru : Province) History

Huarochirí (Peru : Province) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.