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The cord keepers : khipus and cultural life in a Peruvian village

by Frank Salomon

Investigating the continued preservation of khipus, the knotted-cord record-keeping devices of the Inka, this study analyses how these non-verbal codes functioned in local rituals and administrative systems up to the twentieth century.

Accession 1316 ISBN 0822333791 Publisher Duke University Press
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