Inka history in knots : reading khipus as primary sources /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.