Frank L Salomon

Broschiertes Buch

The Cord Keepers

Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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”).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 331
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333906
• ISBN-10: 0822333902
• Artikelnr.: 14431856