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The Cord Keepers
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The Cord Keepers

Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village
BookHardcover
Ranking406093inGeschichte
CHF162.00

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An ethnography of Andean knot writing, where media convey information without an alphabet or any other visual likeness of speech, examining the ways that such "mute inscription" communicates social experience.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8223-3379-1
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publishing date29/10/2004
SeriesLatin America Otherwise
Pages368 pages
LanguageEnglish
Weight662 g
Illustrations55 photos (incl. 16 in color), 12 illus.
Article no.3061168
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.1486685
Product groupGeschichte
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Frank Salomon is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas and coauthor of The Huarochirí Manuscript: A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion. He is a coeditor of the two South American volumes of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: South America ("Prehistory and Conquest" and "Colony and Republics").