Narrative threads
Subtitle: accounting and recounting in Andean Khipu
By: edited by Jeffrey Quilter and Gary Urton.
Contributors: Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-; Urton, Gary, 1946-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Quipu -- History -- Sources; Incas -- Mathematics
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of Spanish colonial commentary on Andean knotted string records / Gary Urton; title: Spinning a yarn: landscape, memory, and discourse structure in Quechua narratives / Rosaleen Howard; title: A khipu information string theory / William J. Conklin; title: Reading khipu: labels, structure, and format / Marcia Ascher; title: Inka writing / Robert Ascher; title: String registries: native accounting and memory according to the colonial sources / Carlos Sempat Assadourian; title: Woven words: the royal khipu of Blas Valera / Sabine P. Hyland; title: Recording signs in narrative-accounting khipu / Gary Urton; title: Yncap Cimin Quipococ's knots / Jeffrey Quilter; title: "Without deceit or lies": variable chinu readings during a sixteenth centruy tribute-restitution trial / Tristan Platt; title: Pérez Bocanegra's ritual formulario: khipu knots and confession / Regina Harrison; title: Patrimonial khipu in a modern Peruvian village: an introduction to the "Quipocamayo" of Tupicocha, Huarochirí / Frank Salmon; title: The continuing khipu traditions: principles and practices / Carol Mackey.