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dc.contributor.authorHyland, Sabine Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-13T09:01:02Z
dc.date.available2015-05-13T09:01:02Z
dc.date.issued2014-09
dc.identifier144994719
dc.identifieredc4835a-cd4c-401a-875d-eb44a953a98d
dc.identifier84905313988
dc.identifier000341242800012
dc.identifier.citationHyland , S P 2014 , ' Ply, markedness and redundancy : new evidence for how Andean khipus encoded information ' , American Anthropologist , vol. 116 , no. 3 , pp. 643-648 . https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12120en
dc.identifier.issn0002-7294
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/6639
dc.description.abstractKhipus are knotted-cord devices once used in the Andes for communication and recording information. Although numbers can be read on many khipus, it is unknown how other forms of data may have been recorded on the strings. Scholars currently debate whether elements of cord construction, such as the direction of ply, signified meaning on khipus and, if so, how. Testimony from an Aymara-speaking khipu maker, collected in 1895 by Max Uhle and recovered from Uhle's unpublished field notes, combined with the analysis of his actual khipu provides the first direct evidence that ply was a signifying element in khipus. Moreover, the evidence suggests that ply signified through a principle of markedness in which S ply corresponded to the unmarked (more valued) category while Z ply corresponded to the marked (less valued) category.
dc.format.extent331378
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAmerican Anthropologisten
dc.subjectAndesen
dc.subjectWriting systemsen
dc.subjectKhipusen
dc.subjectEthnohistoryen
dc.subjectGN Anthropologyen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subject.lccGNen
dc.titlePly, markedness and redundancy : new evidence for how Andean khipus encoded informationen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Social Anthropologyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/aman.12120
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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