Quipus and Quipucamayocs, encoding and administration in ancient Peru
Lucrezia Milillo, Magdalena Setlak, Sabine Hyland, Viviana Moscovich
It's been 500 years since the first news about this instrument spread in Europe, but we still face the same questions Europeans did at the time: Is it a form of writing? How was it codified? How was it learned or taught? Who uses them? What is their function in society?
The study of the quipus has been an intellectual adventure, also fraught with modern myths about writing and the quipu, its codification. We will get closer to the truth when various specialists combine our diverse perspectives, some of which are reflected here in this book, with the goal of deciphering the quipus. This project will inevitably take many years, but it is not impossible, and the results will undoubtedly be surprising. (Carmen Arellano)
Additional information:
Author: Lucrezia Milillo, Magdalena Setlak, Sabine Hyland, Viviana Moscovich
Year of publication: 2020
Language: Spanish, English
Sponsor: HEY
Photography/Illustration: Daniel Giannoni, National and International Museums, Yutaka Yoshii
Pages: 476
Size: 30 × 28 cm
Legal deposit: 2020-09340
ISBN: 978-612-48218-9-9
Copyright: HEY
The study of the quipus has been an intellectual adventure, also fraught with modern myths about writing and the quipu, its codification. We will get closer to the truth when various specialists combine our diverse perspectives, some of which are reflected here in this book, with the goal of deciphering the quipus. This project will inevitably take many years, but it is not impossible, and the results will undoubtedly be surprising. (Carmen Arellano)
Additional information:
Author: Lucrezia Milillo, Magdalena Setlak, Sabine Hyland, Viviana Moscovich
Year of publication: 2020
Language: Spanish, English
Sponsor: HEY
Photography/Illustration: Daniel Giannoni, National and International Museums, Yutaka Yoshii
Pages: 476
Size: 30 × 28 cm
Legal deposit: 2020-09340
ISBN: 978-612-48218-9-9
Copyright: HEY
Foreword
Introduction
Part One:
Pulling the strings of power: functions of quipus in the Inca Empire.
Quipu, Yupana, and an Inca universal decimal system: Yanantin, what never goes alone.
The meaning of seriation and color bands on quipus: a decipherment based on the labor accounting quipus of Huarochirí.
New perspectives on quipu semantics based on a specimen in the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy.
Part Two
Introduction
Catalogue of national quipus
Catalogue of international quipus
Bibliography of the essays (Consolidated)
Bibliography of the quipus catalogue.
Introduction
Part One:
Pulling the strings of power: functions of quipus in the Inca Empire.
Quipu, Yupana, and an Inca universal decimal system: Yanantin, what never goes alone.
The meaning of seriation and color bands on quipus: a decipherment based on the labor accounting quipus of Huarochirí.
New perspectives on quipu semantics based on a specimen in the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy.
Part Two
Introduction
Catalogue of national quipus
Catalogue of international quipus
Bibliography of the essays (Consolidated)
Bibliography of the quipus catalogue.