ISBN:
9781477311981
,
9781477311998
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 293 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
DDC:
985/.01
Keywords:
Quipu History
;
Incas History
;
Peru
;
Inka
;
Knotenschrift
;
Geschichte
;
Peru
;
Inka
;
Sachkultur
;
Archäologie
Abstract:
What can we learn about the Inkas from study of the khipus? -- A brief introduction to Tawantinsuyu--the Inka empire -- Cord notes for describing an Inka-era village on the southern coast of Peru -- The ancestors' calendar : Laguna de los Cóndores, Chachapoyas, northern Peru -- Constructing the records of the Palace of Puruchuco, Lima Valley -- Accounting for the Oracle : record keeping at Pachacamac, Lurín Valley -- The iconography of inebriation : engraved and sculpted khipu bars -- What did the ceque khipus look like? -- Accounting in the king's storehouse : Inkawasi, southern coast of Peru -- Counting heads in Tawantinsuyu -- Accounting for demographic collapse? -- Khipus from a colonial revisit to the Santa Valley : the rosetta khipu -- Structure and history in the khipus -- Appendix. A khipu inventory
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index
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