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[BlueLancer]

For an interesting take on this, see INCA GOLD by Clive Cussler ...

[N. Theknow]

Professor should be ordered into sensitivity training. Anyone knows that they are now referred to as "strings of color" not colored strings.

[trebb]

Maybe they just liked pretty-colored strings.

[NotQuiteCricket]

read later.

[Shooter 2.5]

Why don't they just ask all those people who claimed they were reincarnated?

You know the type. The ones that always claimed they were ancient royalty instead of someone who swept the stables.

[chilepepper]

Based on a selective and literal interpretation of colonial sources and a limited understanding of archaeological specimens, many scholars have argued that the khipu was not writing, but rather a mnemonic device similar to a rosary

Errr, so is all writing and so are all symbols.

Writing is just ink squigles (to use an obsolete euphemisim ;)

We (or other intelligence entities that are able to postulate the context in which our symbols are created and used) are the ones who breath life and meaning into these symbols -- the conundrum is that this meaning is a floating crap game and is continously changing, and the "context" which we think we are agreeing on is an illusion -- there are at least subtle and often profound differences in the way we actually interpret words and symbols -- we just THINK we are "communicating with each other" with great precision...

[JimSEA]

It is interesting to me that they were in contact with a culture with a written language but didn't even "borrow" it for their own uses. In other areas of the world this was common (ie: Pali and Chinese use in South and Southeast Asia / Chinese in Korea and Japan)

[ClearCase_guy]

In fact, Brokaw says the first step in understanding the khipu is "to recognize that it was linked to genres of Andean discourse, powerful discursive paradigms"

I though Postmodernism was dead. "Genres of discourse" -- I gotta pick some of that up at the store. It's on the shelf next to the "discursive paradigms".

[msdrby]

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[Old Professer]

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[Duckdog]

How many of my tax dollars are going to this lamness?

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