[PDF.56nd] Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources

Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources

[PDF.zj58] Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources

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 | #585556 in Books |  University of Texas Press |  2017-04-04 | Original language:English |  8.90 x.90 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 319 pages

 | University of Texas Press

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|| |"This book will be read and cited for decades. Urton’s work is absolutely brilliant." (Sabine Hyland, University of St. Andrews, author of The Chankas and the Priest: A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru)

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Inka khipus—spun and plied cords that record information through intricate patterns of knots and colors—constitute the only available primary sources on the Inka empire not mediated by the hands, minds, and motives of the conquering Europeans. As such, they offer direct insight into the worldview of the Inka—a view that differs from European thought as much as khipus differ from alphabetic writing, which the Inka did not possess. Scholars have spent ...

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