The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village

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None of the world's "lost writings" have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus . In The Cord Keepers , the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon breaks new ground with a close ethnography of one Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822333902

ISBN13:9780822333906

Release Date:October 2004

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:331 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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