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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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | Latin America otherwise.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.