Narrative Threads

Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu

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Quilter, JeffreyHrsg.

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback

384 Seiten

Englisch

University of Texas Presserschienen am01.08.2002

In this benchmark book, twelve international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings?mehr

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KlappentextIn this benchmark book, twelve international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings?

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-292-72367-2

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr2002

Erscheinungsdatum01.08.2002

Seiten384 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 21 mm

Gewicht555 g

Artikel-Nr.15545404

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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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AcknowledgmentsPreface (Jeffrey Quilter)Part One. Background for the Study of Khipu and Quechua Narratives 1. An Overview of Spanish Colonial Commentary on Andean Knotted-String Records (Gary Urton)2. Spinning a Yarn: Landscape, Memory, and Discourse Structure in Quechua Narratives (Rosaleen Howard)Part Two. Structure and Information in the Khipu 3. A Khipu Information String Theory (William J Conklin)4. Reading Khipu: Labels, Structure, and Format (Marcia Ascher)5. Inka Writing (Robert Ascher)Part Three. Interpreting Chroniclers' Accounts of Khipu 6. String Registries: Native Accounting and Memory According to the Colonial Sources (Carlos Sempat Assadourian)7. Woven Words: The Royal Khipu of Blas Valera (Sabine P. Hyland)8. Recording Signs in Narrative-Accounting Khipu (Gary Urton)9. Yncap Cimin Quipococ's Knots (Jeffrey Quilter)Part Four. Colonial Uses and Transformations of the Khipu 10. "Without Deceit or Lies": Variable Chinu Readings during a Sixteenth-Century Tribute-Restitution Trial (Tristan Platt)11. Pérez Bocanegra's Ritual formulario: Khipu Knots and Confession (Regina Harrison)Part Five. Contemporary Khipu Traditions 12. Patrimonial Khipu in a Modern Peruvian Village: An Introduction to the "Quipocamayos" of Tupicocha, Huarochirí (Frank Salomon)13. The Continuing Khipu Traditions: Principles and Practices (Carol Mackey)ContributorsIndexmehr