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

• Autore: Salomon Frank
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Disciplina: 985/.00498323
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Huarochirí (Peru : Province) History; Huarochirí (Peru : Province) Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): MignoloWalter D.; Saldívar-HullSonia; SilverblattIrene
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The cord keepers
• ISBN: 0-8223-8617-8; 9786613023957; 1-283-02395-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248044403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Latin America otherwise.