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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.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.