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The cord keepers : khipus and cultural life in a Peruvian village /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Salomon, Frank
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2004.
Colección:Latin America otherwise.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.