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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Salomon, Frank. Cord keepers. Durham : Duke University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)658951723 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Frank Salomon |
| ISBN: | 0822333791 9780822333791 0822333902 9780822333906 |
| OCLC Number: | 54929904 |
| Description: | xxi, 331 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The Unread Legacy: An Introduction to Tupicocha's Khipu Problem, and Anthropology's -- Universes of the Legible and Theories of Writing -- A Flowery Script: The Social and Documentary Order of Modern Tupicocha Village -- Living by the "Book of the Thousand": Community, Ayllu, and Customary Governance -- The Tupicochan Staff Code -- The Khipu Art after the Inkas -- The Patrimonial Quipocamayos of Tupicocha -- Ayllu Cords and Ayllu Books -- The Half-Life and Afterlife of an Andean Medium: How Modern Villagers Interpret Quipocamayos -- Toward Synthetic Interpretation. |
| Series Title: | Latin America otherwise. |
| Responsibility: | Frank Salomon. |
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Abstract:
The Inkan empire did not have writing as it is usually understood. The Inkas kept track of information - including their social and political organization - on khipus, knotted cords of cotton or wool. This book offers a reading of the khipus of one Andean village, where villagers have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day.
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"Strokes of good fortune brought Frank Salomon to villages and archives with extraordinary potential for research. Imagination, erudition, and perseverance permitted him to retrieve insights of great importance from these sources. The world seems subtly yet significantly different after reading "The Cord Keepers", since Salomon convinces his readers that the human capacities to record meanings and to transmit cultural forms are deeper and broader than they had thought."--Benjamin Orlove, author of "Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca" Read more...
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