Inka history in knots : reading khipus as primary sources
| 1. Verfasser: |
Urton, Gary, 1946-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2017.
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| Ausgabe: | First edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xvii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- What can we learn about the Inkas from study of the khipus?
- A brief introduction to Tawantinsuyu
- the Inka empire
- Cord notes for describing an Inka-era village on the southern coast of Peru
- The ancestors' calendar : Laguna de los Cóndores, Chachapoyas, northern Peru
- Constructing the records of the Palace of Puruchuco, Lima Valley
- Accounting for the Oracle : record keeping at Pachacamac, Lurín Valley
- The iconography of inebriation : engraved and sculpted khipu bars
- What did the ceque khipus look like?
- Accounting in the king's storehouse : Inkawasi, southern coast of Peru
- Counting heads in Tawantinsuyu
- Accounting for demographic collapse?
- Khipus from a colonial revisit to the Santa Valley : the rosetta khipu
- Structure and history in the khipus
- Appendix. A khipu inventory.
