LOS QUIPUS FUNERARIOS Y TRIBUTARIOS DE CUSPÓN Y CHIQUIÁN: HOY Y AYER

Authors

  • Molly Tun Universidad de Minnesota
  • Filomeno Zubieta Núñez Universidad Nacional José Faustino Sánchez Carrión de Huacho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/arqueolsoc.2016n31.e13308

Keywords:

funerary quipus, tributary quipus, Cuspon, Chiquian, Mama Licuna

Abstract

The practice of burying the dead with knotted cords, or quipus, is one that has been observed in Peru from ancient times up until the present but little is known about this tradition. Today, distinctions are made between these funerary quipus and countable quipus, but such distinctions between classes of quipus and connections between modern and inca or pre-inca quipus continue to be enigmatic. This article presents new information about the funerary quipus of Cuspón and the women that maintain this cultural patrimony alive, as well as brings to light an unpublished colonial manuscript about the use of tributary quipus in the same district of Chiquián. Such ethnographic and archival documentation brings to the foreground the various uses of quipu in Cuspón and Chiquián from the past and present, in the hopes of continuing to weave connections between these quipus and traditions and those that remain to be explored.

Author Biographies

  • Molly Tun, Universidad de Minnesota
    Profesora asistente en St. Olaf College con un PhD en literaturas, culturas y lingúisticas hispánicas y lusófonas de la Universidad de Minnesota. Trabaja como coordinadora (en Estados Unidos) de la Red Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática y es miembro de la junta directiva de la Sociedad Maya de Minnesota. Su trabajo se enfoca en resaltar los conocimientos de culturas mesoamericanas y andinas, muchas veces en relación al contexto colonial.
  • Filomeno Zubieta Núñez, Universidad Nacional José Faustino Sánchez Carrión de Huacho
    Profesor principal en la Universidad Nacional José Faustino Sánchez Carrión de Huacho, Lima. Doctor en Ciencias Sociales (Historia) por la UNMSM. Fundador y primer director del Archivo Regional de Lima (1992-2005). Miembro Correspondiente de la Academia Nacional de Historia. Autor de una treintena de libros sobre Huacho y el Norte Chico como de los pueblos de la provincia de Bolognesi (Ancash).

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Published

2017-06-13

Issue

No. 31 (2016)

Section

ARTÍCULOS ORIGINALES

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LOS QUIPUS FUNERARIOS Y TRIBUTARIOS DE CUSPÓN Y CHIQUIÁN: HOY Y AYER. (2017). Arqueología Y Sociedad, 31, 403-421. https://doi.org/10.15381/arqueolsoc.2016n31.e13308