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The Cord Keepers: Khipus And Cultural Life In A Peruvian Village (Latin America Otherwise)
The Cord Keepers Khipus And Cultural Life In A Peruvian Village - Latin America Otherwise
Author: Frank Salomon
None of the world’s "lost writings" has proven more perplexing than the mysterious code 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 An...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780822333906
ISBN-10: 0822333902
Publication Date: 10/2004
Pages: 331
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Publisher: Duke University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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