A History of the Khipu

by Galen Brokaw

This book begins by proposing a theoretical model that reconciles orality-literacy studies and media theory in order to avoid the specious dichotomization of societies into those with and those without writing. The more relevant issue is the way in which a given society distributes semiotic functions among the various media that it employs and the forms of economic and political integration within which such media function. This theoretical model...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521197791
• ISBN13: 9780521197793
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"