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The Social Life of Numbers : A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic
The Social Life of Numbers A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic
Author: Gary Urton, Primitivo Nina Llanos
Unraveling all the mysteries of the khipu—the knotted string device used by the Inka to record both statistical data and narrative accounts of myths, histories, and genealogies—will require an understanding of how number values and relations may have been used to encode information on social, familial, and political relationsh...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780292785335
ISBN-10: 029278533X
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: 285
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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