Narrative Threads : : Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu /

Narrative Threads : : Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu / / ed. by Gary Urton, Jeffrey Quilter.

The Inka Empire stretched over much of the length and breadth of the South American Andes, encompassed elaborately planned cities linked by a complex network of roads and messengers, and created astonishing works of architecture and artistry and a compelling mythology—all without the aid of a graphi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ascher, Marcia,
Ascher, Robert,
Assadourian, Carlos Sempat,
Conklin, William J.,
Harrison, Regina,
Howard, Rosaleen,
Hyland, Sabine P.,
Mackey, Carol,
Platt, Tristan,
Quilter, Jeffrey,
Salomon, Frank,
Urton, Gary,
HerausgeberIn:
Quilter, Jeffrey,
Urton, Gary,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (391 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PREFACE
  • PART ONE BACKGROUND FOR THE STUDY OF KHIPU AND QUECHUA NARRATIVES
  • ONE An Overview of Spanish Colonial Commentary on Andean Knotted-String Records
  • TWO Spinning a Yarn: Landscape, Memory, and Discourse Structure in Quechua Narratives
  • PART TWO STRUCTURE AND INFORMATION IN THE KHIPU
  • THREE A Khipu Information String Theory
  • FOUR Reading Khipu: Labels, Structure, and Format
  • FIVE Inka Writing
  • PART THREE INTERPRETING CHRONICLERS' ACCOUNTS OF KHIPU
  • SIX String Registries: Native Accounting and Memory According to the Colonial Sources
  • SEVEN Woven Words: The Royal Khipu of Blas Valera
  • EIGHT Recording Signs in Narrative-Accounting Khipu
  • NINE Yncap Cimin Quipococ’s Knots
  • PART FOUR COLONIAL USES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE KHIPU
  • TEN ‘‘Without Deceit or Lies’’: Variable Chinu Readings during a Sixteenth-Century Tribute-Restitution Trial
  • ELEVEN Pérez Bocanegra’s Ritual formulario: Khipu Knots and Confession
  • PART FIVE CONTEMPORARY KHIPU TRADITIONS
  • TWELVE Patrimonial Khipu in a Modern Peruvian Village: An Introduction to the ‘‘Quipocamayos’’ of Tupicocha, Huarochirí
  • THIRTEEN The Continuing Khipu Traditions: Principles and Practices
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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