Download or read book Comparative Ethnographical Studies written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Ethnographical Studies pt 1 The secret of the Peruvian quipus pt 2 Calculations with years and months in the Peruvian quipus written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Ethnographical Studies written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Ethnographical Studies Picture writings and other documents written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Peruvian Quipu written by Leslie Leland Locke and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplementary Notes on the Quipus in the American Museum of Natural History written by Leslie Leland Locke and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret of the Peruvian Quipus written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret of the Peruvian Quipus written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Ethnographical Studies written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quipus and Witches Knots written by Cyrus Lawence Day and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay in cultural anthropology provides a comprehensive view of the way primitive people in all parts of the world once utilized knots; mnemonic knots—to record dates, numbers, and cultural traditions; magic knots—to cure diseases, bewitch enemies, and control the forces of nature; and practical knots—to tie things and hold things together. In his discussion of mnemonic knots, the author analyzes the Peruvian quipus (or knot-calendars and knot-records) and suggests that the Inca astronomer-priests, known to have been accurate observers of the movements of the planets, may also have been able to predict the dates of lunar eclipses; and he shows how it is possible to manipulate the Ina abacus in accordance with the decimal system. His treatment of magic knots includes instances from Babylonian times to the present, with curious examples of the supernatural power attributed to the Hercules knot (i.e., the square knot) in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. His analysis of a little-known treatise on surgeons’ slings and nooses, written by the Green physician Heraklas, is the first detailed account of the specific practical knots used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Quipus and Witches’ Knots, which is abundantly illustrated, often surprises the reader with the unexpected ways in which the once universal dependence of men on knots has left its mark on the language, customs, and thought of modern civilized peoples.
Download or read book Contributions from the Heye Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Ethnographical Studies written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City Volume 2 written by Paul Wheatley and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and territorial basis during the second millennium b.c. They describe the way in which, during subsequent centuries, these institutes were diffused through much of the rest of North and Central China. Author Paul Wheatley equates the emergence of the ceremonial center, as evidenced in Shang China, with a functional and developmental stage in urban genesis, and substantiates his argument with comparative evidence from the Americas, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Yoruba territories. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City seeks in small measure to help redress the current imbalance between our knowledge of the contemporary, Western-style city on the one hand, and of the urbanism characteristic of the traditional world on the other. Those aspects of urban theory which have been derived predominantly from the investigation of Western urbanism, are tested against, rather than applied to ancient China. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City examines the cosmological symbolism of the Chinese city, constructed as a world unto itself. It suggests, with a wealth of argument and evidence, that this cosmo-magical role underpinned the functional unity of the city everywhere, until new bases for urban life began to develop in the Hellenistic world. Whereas the majority of previous investigations into the nature of the Chinese city have been undertaken from the standpoint of elites, The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City has adopted a point of view closer to that of the social scientist than the geographer. Paul Wheatley was professor and chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was most famous for his work dealing with comparative urban civilization. Some of his books include The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, 7th to 10th Centuries; Nagara and Commandery, Origins of the Southeast Asian Urban Traditions; and The Management of Success: The Moulding of Modern Singapore (with K. S. Sandhu).
Download or read book The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City written by Paul Wheatley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and territorial basis during the second millennium b.c. They describe the way in which, during subsequent centuries, these institutes were diffused through much of the rest of North and Central China. Author Paul Wheatley equates the emergence of the ceremonial center, as evidenced in Shang China, with a functional and developmental stage in urban genesis, and substantiates his argument with comparative evidence from the Americas, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Yoruba territories. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City seeks in small measure to help redress the current imbalance between our knowledge of the contemporary, Western-style city on the one hand, and of the urbanism characteristic of the traditional world on the other. Those aspects of urban theory which have been derived predominantly from the investigation of Western urbanism, are tested against, rather than applied to ancient China. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City examines the cosmological symbolism of the Chinese city, constructed as a world unto itself. It suggests, with a wealth of argument and evidence, that this cosmo-magical role underpinned the functional unity of the city everywhere, until new bases for urban life began to develop in the Hellenistic world. Whereas the majority of previous investigations into the nature of the Chinese city have been undertaken from the standpoint of elites, The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City has adopted a point of view closer to that of the social scientist than the geographer.
Download or read book Tizoc written by Frederick Webb Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mathematics of the Incas written by Marcia Ascher and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique, thought-provoking study discusses quipu, an accounting system employing knotted, colored cords, used by Incas. Cultural context, mathematics involved, and even how to make a quipu. Over 125 illustrations.
