The Cord Keepers

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ISBN: 9780822333791 | 0822333791
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/2004

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"This is without doubt the most important work ever produced on the khipu. It is extraordinarily bold and inventive in its suggestions for how these 'texts' may have been produced and interpreted. The hypothetical reading of the khipu is an absolutely astonishing accomplishment."--Gary Urton, author of "Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records "

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