Books written by Gary Urton
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The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic
vine — as a special field of knowledge apart from concerns of the natural world and human affairs, was brought to completion by Aristotle and his school, the lyceum (Goody and Watt 1968: 54-55). Again, what Goody and Watt's account of ...
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Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources
He took his travel accounts from narratives recorded in manuscripts left to him by Richard Hakluyt (Helfers 1997; Rawlinson 1931). 4. Quoted in Greenblatt 1991:10. 5. Greenblatt 1991:10. 6. Goody and Watt 1968:27–68; see the critique of ...
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At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology
See also Arado Pocock, D.F.,211 Polaris, 54 Polo de Ondegardo, Juan,6,8, 9, 132,169, 176, 179,187, 191, 200 Poole, DeborahA., 211 P'oqroy, 26 Posener, Georges, 211 Posuqu, 59,105, 111, 202203 Potatoes:field names, 3 3; harvest of, 27; ...
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Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records
... pendant, subsidiary, or top string), including: (a) cord number; (b) the number of knots in each location (esp. decimal numeration level) on the cord; (c) the type of knot(s) on the cord (E = figure-eight knots, L = long knots, ...
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Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu
In this benchmark book, twelve international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings?
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Encyclopedia of the Incas
The Huarochirí Manuscript: A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991 [1598–1608]. Spalding, Karen. Huarochirí: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule.
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Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records
In this book, Gary Urton sets forth a pathbreaking theory that the manipulation of fibers in the construction of khipu created physical features that constitute binary-coded sequences which store units of information in a system of binary ...
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Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources
#13842 UR271 sector A, subsector 1, U.A.04, unidad 19Q, U.E. 25 32 Found covered with frijoles (black beans; Phaseolus vulgaris) near center of kallanka U.A. 04; same room as the fourteen khipus covered by peanuts.
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Animal Myths and Metaphors in South America
Finally , the macaw is only one of the forms tem- porarily assumed by the soul , and the Bororo deny they are ... and for metaphors derived from these , while the macaw as agent for the soul's revenge after death is itself metonymy .
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The Construction of Value in the Ancient World
Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to ...
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Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy
This collection's wide range of outstanding scholarship reveals that cultural astronomy has come into its own.
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The Construction of Value in the Ancient World
Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to ...