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.
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.
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”).
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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
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
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