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The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village
Frank L. Salomon
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| #246430 in Books | Duke University Press Books | 2004-10-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.28 x.94 x6.16l,1.16 | File type: PDF | 368 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| The language not yet broken|By J. Brandon|This book is a wealth of information when dealing with the ancient language of cord knots...or, khipus. Ancient languages are a fascination to most people who have an adventurous spirit, as well as a thirst for knowledge. The way the Peruvian civilization existed and prospered for hundreds of years was recorded in theor system of using||
“The Cord Keepers is a brilliant and pathbreaking book. It forces us to reconceptualize what writing is or can be, what it encodes, and whether we should even think of writing as something that records, rather than as a performative practice
None of the world’s “lost writings” have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script 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 Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village | Frank L. Salomon. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
