ISBN:
0292769032
,
9780292769038
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xix, 363 p., [8] p. of plates)
,
ill. (some col.), map
,
24 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Narrative threads
DDC:
302.2/22
Keywords:
Quipu Sources History
;
Incas Mathematics
Description / Table of Contents:
An overview of Spanish colonial commentary on Andean knotted string records / Gary UrtonSpinning a yarn: landscape, memory, and discourse structure in Quechua narratives / Rosaleen Howard -- A khipu information string theory / William J. Conklin -- Reading khipu: labels, structure, and format / Marcia Ascher -- Inka writing / Robert Ascher -- String registries: native accounting and memory according to the colonial sources / Carlos Sempat Assadourian -- Woven words: the royal khipu of Blas Valera / Sabine P. Hyland -- Recording signs in narrative-accounting khipu / Gary Urton -- Yncap Cimin Quipococ's knots / Jeffrey Quilter -- "Without deceit or lies": variable chinu readings during a sixteenth century tribute-restitution trial / Tristan Platt -- Pérez Bocanegra's ritual formulario: khipu knots and confession / Regina Harrison -- Patrimonial khipu in a modern Peruvian village: an introduction to the "Quipocamayo" of Tupicocha, Huarochirí / Frank Salmon -- The continuing khipu traditions: principles and practices / Carol Mackey.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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