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dc.contributor.authorHyland, Sabine
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-01T11:30:04Z
dc.date.available2016-08-01T11:30:04Z
dc.date.issued2016-12
dc.identifier244607739
dc.identifierd71324f3-bb25-4e98-a4dc-925500a35f18
dc.identifier85002273500
dc.identifier000389671600005
dc.identifier.citationHyland , S 2016 , ' How khipus indicated labour contributions in an Andean village: an explanation of colour banding, seriation and ethnocategories ' , Journal of Material Culture , vol. 21 , no. 4 , pp. 490-509 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183516662677en
dc.identifier.issn1359-1835
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/9237
dc.descriptionThis research was supported by a Global Exploration Grant from the National Geographic Society (GEFNE120-14).en
dc.description.abstractNew archival and ethnographic evidence reveals that Inka style khipus were used in the Andean community of Santiago de Anchucaya to record contributions to communal labour obligations until the 1940s. Archival testimony from the last khipu specialist in Anchucaya, supplemented by interviews with his grandson, provides the first known expert explanation for how goods, labour obligations, and social groups were indicated on Inka style Andean khipus. This evidence, combined with the analysis of Anchucaya khipus in the Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología y Historia Peruana, furnishes a local model for the relationship between the two most frequent colour patterns (colour banding and seriation) that occur in khipus. In this model, colour banding is associated with individual data whilst seriation is associated with aggregated data. The archival and ethnographic evidence also explains how labour and goods were categorized in uniquely Andean ways as they were represented on khipus.
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dc.format.extent1071810
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Material Cultureen
dc.subjectAndesen
dc.subjectEthno-accountingen
dc.subjectIncasen
dc.subjectKhipusen
dc.subjectPeruen
dc.subjectWriting systemen
dc.subjectGN Anthropologyen
dc.subject.lccGNen
dc.titleHow khipus indicated labour contributions in an Andean village: an explanation of colour banding, seriation and ethnocategoriesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Social Anthropologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1359183516662677
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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