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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 498–501.
Published: 01 April 2005
... 95(1): 139–52.
498 Book Reviews
Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recording in Andean Khipu. Edited
by Jeffrey Quilter and Gary Urton. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2002. 391 pp., preface, 66 b&w figures, 14 tables, 13 essays, index. $45.00...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Sarahh Scher A History of the Khipu. By Brokaw Galen . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . xvi + 300 pp., preface, introduction, bibliography, index . $95.00 cloth.) Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America. Edited by Boone...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 453–468.
Published: 01 April 2000
... in the Andes from Spanish Transcriptions of Inka Khipus. Ethnohistory 45 : 409 -38. Zárate, Agustín de 1557 Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú . 2d ed. Seville: Alonso Escrivano. Two Khipu, One Narrative: Answering
Urton’s Questions...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 165–173.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Sabine Hyland According to the anonymous seventeenth-century author of the Quito Manuscript, ancient Andeans once possessed a writing system ( qillqa ) that they replaced with knotted strings ( khipu ) as part of the religious and sexual reform of their nation. The manuscript's redactor, Fernando...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 311–341.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Manuel Medrano Abstract Despite ongoing efforts to compile both Andean khipus and their written colonial references, initiatives in this domain have emphasized the benefits of aggregation vis-à-vis preservation and diffusion, largely forgoing opportunities to analyze khipu data in aggregate...
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in Calendars in Knotted Cords: New Evidence on How Khipus Captured Time in Nineteenth-Century Cuzco and Beyond
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 3. Moiety-wide khipu recording six births between July 1856 and July 1857. Drawing by author and Ana Luna.
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in Calendars in Knotted Cords: New Evidence on How Khipus Captured Time in Nineteenth-Century Cuzco and Beyond
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 4. Single khipu of Matías Chakamanta, b. 19 October 1856 and baptized 26 July 1857, at age 9 months and 7 days. Drawing by author and Ana Luna.
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in Calendars in Knotted Cords: New Evidence on How Khipus Captured Time in Nineteenth-Century Cuzco and Beyond
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 5. Moiety-wide, color-coded banded khipu of the dead, with inset showing births of girls up to 12 years old. Drawing by author and Ana Luna.
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in Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 1. Six-cord color groups on a Santa Valley khipu (UR 89). Photo by Gary Urton
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in New Insights on Cord Attachment and Social Hierarchy in Six Khipus from the Santa Valley, Peru
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 October 2024
Figure 4. An example of seriated-banding, like that seen on KH0323, by which khipu cords form both individual bands of color (i.e., W, RB, YB, MB) and these bands then repeat in a seriated fashion.
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 442–443.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Galen Brokaw The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village. By Frank Salomon. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xxi + 331 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations and maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $27.95 paper.) 2006 Ascher, Robert, and Marcia...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 437–464.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Figure 3. Moiety-wide khipu recording six births between July 1856 and July 1857. Drawing by author and Ana Luna. ...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Figure 1. Six-cord color groups on a Santa Valley khipu (UR 89). Photo by Gary Urton ...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (4): 443–469.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Figure 4. An example of seriated-banding, like that seen on KH0323, by which khipu cords form both individual bands of color (i.e., W, RB, YB, MB) and these bands then repeat in a seriated fashion. ...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 135–164.
Published: 01 January 2010
... Introduction. In Murúa, Códice Murúa . Pp. 7 -72. 2008 Murúa, Martín de (?-ca. 1620). In Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900 . Vol. 3 . Joanne Pillsbury, ed. Pp. 436 -41. Pärssinen, Martti, and Jukka Kiviharju, eds. 2004 Textos Andinos: Corpus de textos khipu...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 439–441.
Published: 01 April 2006
... and Underspelling in the Classic Maya Script: Impli-
cations for Decipherment. MA thesis, University of Calgary.
442 Book Reviews
The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village. By
Frank Salomon. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 601–602.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Society for Ethnohistory 2014 Reference Pärssinen Martti Kiviharju Jukka 2004 Textos andinos: Corpus de textos “khipu” incaicos y coloniales . Madrid : Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia y Departamento de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid . Book Reviews...
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