THREE A Khipu Information String Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. PREFACE xiii
5. PART ONE BACKGROUND FOR THE STUDY OF KHIPU AND QUECHUA NARRATIVES
6. ONE An Overview of Spanish Colonial Commentary on Andean Knotted-String Records 1
7. TWO Spinning a Yarn: Landscape, Memory, and Discourse Structure in Quechua Narratives 26
8. PART TWO STRUCTURE AND INFORMATION IN THE KHIPU
9. THREE A Khipu Information String Theory 51
10. FOUR Reading Khipu: Labels, Structure, and Format 87
11. FIVE Inka Writing 103
12. PART THREE INTERPRETING CHRONICLERS' ACCOUNTS OF KHIPU
13. SIX String Registries: Native Accounting and Memory According to the Colonial Sources 117
14. SEVEN Woven Words: The Royal Khipu of Blas Valera 151
15. EIGHT Recording Signs in Narrative-Accounting Khipu 171
16. NINE Yncap Cimin Quipococ’s Knots 197
17. PART FOUR COLONIAL USES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE KHIPU
18. TEN ‘‘Without Deceit or Lies’’: Variable Chinu Readings during a Sixteenth-Century Tribute-Restitution Trial 223
19. ELEVEN Pérez Bocanegra’s Ritual formulario: Khipu Knots and Confession 266
20. PART FIVE CONTEMPORARY KHIPU TRADITIONS
21. TWELVE Patrimonial Khipu in a Modern Peruvian Village: An Introduction to the ‘‘Quipocamayos’’ of Tupicocha, Huarochirí 291
22. THIRTEEN The Continuing Khipu Traditions: Principles and Practices 320
23. CONTRIBUTORS 349
24. INDEX 351