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Title:

Narrative threads : accounting and recounting in Andean Khipu / edited by Jeffrey Quilter and Gary Urton.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

xix, 363 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Quipu--History--Sources.
Incas--Mathematics.

Other Authors:

Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-
Urton, Gary, 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

An overview of Spanish colonial commentary on Andean knotted string records / Gary Urton -- Spinning a yarn: landscape, memory, and discourse structure in Quechua narratives / Rosaleen Howard -- A khipu information string theory / William J. Conklin -- Reading khipu: labels, structure, and format / Marcia Ascher -- Inka writing / Robert Ascher -- String registries: native accounting and memory according to the colonial sources / Carlos Sempat Assadourian -- Woven words: the royal khipu of Blas Valera / Sabine P. Hyland -- Recording signs in narrative-accounting khipu / Gary Urton -- Yncap Cimin Quipococ's knots / Jeffrey Quilter -- "Without deceit or lies": variable chinu readings during a sixteenth century tribute-restitution trial / Tristan Platt -- Pérez Bocanegra's ritual formulario: khipu knots and confession / Regina Harrison -- Patrimonial khipu in a modern Peruvian village: an introduction to the "Quipocamayo" of Tupicocha, Huarochirí / Frank Salmon -- The continuing khipu traditions: principles and practices / Carol Mackey.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

ISBN:

9780292769038 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292769032 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2002000247

Locations:

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)