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The Cord Keepers
Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village
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Frank L. Salomon
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Edited by:
Walter D. Mignolo
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English
Published/Copyright:
2004
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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”).
Reviews
“The Cord Keepers is a brilliant and pathbreaking book. It forces us to reconceptualize what writing is or can be, what it encodes, and whether we should even think of writing as something that records, rather than as a performative practice that engages more actively with the world.”—Joanne Rappaport, author of The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes
“Strokes of good fortune brought Frank Salomon to villages and archives with extraordinary potential for research. Imagination, erudition, and perseverance permitted him to retrieve insights of great importance from these sources. The world seems subtly yet significantly different after reading The Cord Keepers, since Salomon convinces his readers that the human capacities to record meanings and to transmit cultural forms are deeper and broader than they had thought.”—Benjamin Orlove, author of Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca
“This is without doubt the most important work ever produced on the khipu. It is extraordinarily bold and inventive in its suggestions for how these ‘texts’ may have been produced and interpreted. The hypothetical reading of the khipu is an absolutely astonishing accomplishment.”—Gary Urton, author of Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 29, 2004
eBook ISBN:
9780822386179
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
368
Other:
55 photos (incl. 16 in color), 12 illus.
