Frank L Salomon

The Cord Keepers

Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333791
• ISBN-10: 0822333791
• Artikelnr.: 14431926

Autorenporträt

Frank Salomon is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas and coauthor of The Huarochirí Manuscript: A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion. He is a coeditor of the two South American volumes of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: South America (“Prehistory and Conquest” and “Colony and Republics”).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Maps ix
List of Tables xiii
About the Series xv
Preface xvii
The Unread Legacy: An Introduction to Tupicocha’s Khipu Problem, and
Anthropology’s 3
1. Universes of the Legible and Theories of Writing 23
2. A Flowery Script: The Social and Documentary Order of Modern Tupicocha
Village 41
3. Living by the “Book of the Thousand”: Community, Ayllu, and Customary
Governance 55
4. The Tupicochan Staff Code 77
5. The Khipu Art after the Inkas 109
6. The Patrimonial Quipocamayos of Tupicocha 137
7. Ayllu Cords and Ayllu Books 185
8. The Half-Life and Afterlife of an Andean Medium: How Modern Villagers
Interpret Quipocamayos 209
9. Toward Synthetic Interpretation 237
Conclusions 267
Notes 283
Glossary 295
References 299
Index 317