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