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The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic,Used
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Unraveling all the mysteries of the khiputhe knotted string device used by the Inka to record both statistical data and narrative accounts of myths, histories, and genealogieswill require an understanding of how number values and relations may have been used to encode information on social, familial, and political relationships and structures. This is the problem Gary Urton tackles in his pathfinding study of the origin, meaning, and significance of numbers and the philosophical principles underlying the practice of arithmetic among Quechuaspeaking peoples of the Andes.Based on fieldwork in communities around Sucre, in southcentral Bolivia, Urton argues that the origin and meaning of numbers were and are conceived of by Quechuaspeaking peoples in ways similar to their ideas about, and formulations of, gender, age, and social relations. He also demonstrates that their practice of arithmetic is based on a wellarticulated body of philosophical principles and values that reflects a continuous attempt to maintain balance, harmony, and equilibrium in the material, social, and moral spheres of community life.
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