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The chapter asks whether a study of the cognitive and discursive principles at work in the telling of oral traditional stories in Quechua might contribute insights into how the encoding and decoding of messages in the Inca quipu (knot string records) might have operated. It discusses the relationship between memory, the Andean landscape, and discourse structures in Quechua narrative, and offers a reasoned speculation as to possible links between the structure of narrative, the shape of the Andean landscape, and the encoding of information in the quipu.
Author(s): Howard R
Editor(s): Urton, G; Quilter, J
Series Editor(s): Lozano, JR; Teresa Lozano, T
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu
Year: 2002
Pages: 26-49
Edition: 1st
Series Title: Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Place Published: Austin, Texas
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exquinar.html
Notes: The book is the outgrowth of a round table held at Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C.) in 1997 at which Howard was an invited contributor.
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9780292769038
