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...previous neo-liberal administrations, rampant poverty, and the perennial White House-baked recipe of the “war on drugs.” Yet, a simple fact about Morales seems to be a flawless symbol of the ironic and illusory realities of this continent: he is the first Inca descendant to lead the republic in over 150 years, in a country where indigenous natives account for 80 percent of the population...
Brezine said she was intrigued by the complexity and flexibility of the Inca recording system...
...database project, which began three years ago, helps to address Urton’s earlier frustrations with the lack of available sources on Inca culture. Before the decoding of khipu, there were only two sources of information about the Inca Empire, both of which were unsatisfactory, Urton said. Inca artifacts provided only a mute testimony and Spanish documents recorded Inca life as their conquerors...
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art Thomas B. F. Cummins said the new research could dispel the notion that the Inca had only a primitive recording system...
...These discoveries] would move [khipu] away from that kind of ‘illiterate’ sense of the Inca to one that has its own system of recording that is different than, but comparable to, alphabetizing,” he said...