The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village by Frank Salomon

The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village

Frank Salomon

368 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
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None of the world’s “lost writings” have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, t...

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