About the Series

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations and Maps ix
4. List of Tables xiii
5. About the Series xv
6. Preface xvii
7. The Unread Legacy: An Introduction to Tupicocha’s Khipu Problem, and Anthropology’s 1
8. 1 Universes of the Legible and Theories of Writing 23
9. 2 A Flowery Script: The Social and Documentary Order of Modern Tupicocha Village 41
10. 3 Living by the ‘‘Book of the Thousand’’: Community, Ayllu, and Customary Governance 55
11. 4 The Tupicochan Staff Code 77
12. 5 The Khipu Art after the Inkas 109
13. 6 The Patrimonial Quipocamayos of Tupicocha 137
14. 7 Ayllu Cords and Ayllu Books 185
15. 8 The Half-Life and Afterlife of an Andean Medium: How Modern Villagers Interpret Quipocamayos 209
16. 9 Toward Synthetic Interpretation 237
17. Conclusions 267
18. Notes 283
19. Glossary 295
20. References 299
21. Index 317