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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salomon, Frank.

Series:

Latin America otherwise.

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quipu--Peru--Huarochirí (Province)--History.

Quipu.

Quechua Indians--Peru--Huarochirí (Province)--History.

Quechua Indians.

Quechua philosophy--Peru--Huarochirí (Province).

Quechua philosophy.

Quechua Indians--Peru--Huarochirí (Province)--Social life and customs.

Huarochirí (Peru : Province)--History.

Huarochirí (Peru : Province).

Huarochirí (Peru : Province)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index.

ISBN:

9786613023957

9780822386179

0822386178

9781283023955

1283023954

OCLC:

73999108