The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic by Gary Urton

The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic

Gary Urton

285 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

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Unraveling all the mysteries of the khipu - the knotted string device used by the Inka to record both statistical data and narrative accounts of myths, histories, and genealogies - will require an understanding of how number values and relations m...

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