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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gary Urton is an American anthropologist. He was the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies at Harvard University and the chair of its anthropology department between 2012 and 2019. Urton retired from Harvard in 2020, after multiple former students accused him of sexual harassment. Despite much controversy and opposition, he was given an emeritus title after retirement. Following internal investigation, Urton was stripped of his emeritus status by Harvard in June 2021.
Gary Urton's Published Works
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- At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology (1981) (147)
- The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic (1999) (105)
- From Knots to Narratives: Reconstructing the Art of Historical Record Keeping in the Andes from Spanish Transcriptions of Inka Khipus (1998) (93)
- Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records (2003) (84)
- The history of a myth: Pacariqtambo and the origin of theinkas (1992) (79)
- Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu (2002) (56)
- Is Poverty in Our Genes? (2012) (52)
- Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics (1980) (49)
- Khipu Accounting in Ancient Peru (2005) (47)
- Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (40)
- A Calendrical and Demographic Tomb Text from Northern Peru (2001) (40)
- Animal myths and metaphors in South America (1987) (35)
- Animals and Astronomy in the Quechua Universe (1981) (29)
- Signs of the Inka Khipu (2003) (25)
- Mathematics and Accounting in the Andes Before and After the Spanish Conquest (2012) (24)
- Their way of writing : scripts, signs, and pictographies in Pre-Columbian America (2011) (22)
- Sin, Confession, and the Arts of Book- and Cord-Keeping: An Intercontinental and Transcultural Exploration of Accounting and Governmentality (2009) (19)
- Moieties and Ceremonialism in the Andes : The Ritual Battles of the Carnival Season in Southern Peru (1993) (18)
- Skywatching in the ancient world : new perspectives in cultural astronomy : studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni (2007) (17)
- Khipu Archives: Duplicate Accounts and Identity Labels in the Inka Knotted String Records (2005) (16)
- Orientation in Quechua and Incaic Astronomy (1978) (13)
- The Body of Meaning in Chavin Art (1996) (12)
- The Herder–Cultivator Relationship as a Paradigm for Archaeological Origins, Linguistic Dispersals, and the Evolution of Record-Keeping in the Andes (2011) (11)
- ONE An Overview of Spanish Colonial Commentary on Andean Knotted-String Records (2002) (11)
- Recording Signs in Narrative-Accounting Khipu (2002) (10)
- Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru (2018) (9)
- Astronomy and Calendrics on the Coast of Peru (1982) (8)
- From Middle Horizon cord-keeping to the rise of Inka khipus in the central Andes (2014) (8)
- Response to Ashraf and Galor 'The Out of Africa Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development' (2012) (8)
- Accounting in the King's Storehouse: the Inkawasi Khipu Archive (2015) (7)
- The Inca Khipu: Knotted-Cord Record Keeping in the Andes (2008) (7)
- The History of a Myth (1991) (6)
- Beasts and Geometry : Some Constellations of the Peruvian Quechuas* (1978) (6)
- Writing and record-keeping in early cities (2015) (6)
- The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Columbian Andes. (2008) (5)
- Book-Review - at the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky (1982) (5)
- Radiocarbon chronology of Andean khipus (2014) (5)
- The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Columbian Andes:The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Columbian Andes. (1991) (4)
- Quantitative form in Arguments (2012) (4)
- The Archaeology of Measurement: Recording measure(ment)s in the Inka khipu (2010) (4)
- The Hall of South American Peoples, at AMNH (1992) (4)
- Tying the Archive in Knots, or: Dying to Get into the Archive in Ancient Peru (2011) (4)
- The astronomical system of a community in the Peruvian Andes (1979) (3)
- Numeral Graphic Pluralism in the Colonial Andes (2010) (3)
- The Invention of Taxation in the Inka Empire (2018) (3)
- Encyclopedia of the Incas (2015) (2)
- De nudos a narraciones (1997) (2)
- Inka administration in Tawantinsuyu by means of the knotted-cords (2015) (2)
- Introductory Remarks (1982) (2)
- Writing the History of an Ancient Civilization without Writing: Reading the Inka Khipus as Primary Sources (2017) (2)
- Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes: The Cultural Origins oflnca Sky Watching (1997) (2)
- A Personal History of Knot Knowing (2017) (1)
- 9. Tying the Truth in Knots: Trustworthiness and Accountability in the Inka Khipu (2009) (1)
- Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society (Book) (2004) (1)
- Chapter 9. The State of Strings: Khipu Administration in the Inka Empire (2015) (1)
- Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society (2004) (1)
- Quipus and Yupanas as Imperial Registers (2018) (1)
- Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Huarochirí Manuscript: A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion. Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste (1993) (0)
- Inca encodements. (1982) (0)
- Twisting and Spinning from Symbols to Signs: (2020) (0)
- Andean Diaspora: The Tiwanaku Colonies and the Origins of South American Empire:Andean Diaspora: The Tiwanaku Colonies and the Origins of South American Empire (2006) (0)
- Ethnoastronomy, social organization and the ritual calendar in an Andean community. (1983) (0)
- A History of the Khipu. Galen Brokaw, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 300 pp. (2012) (0)
- Kay Pacha: Reciprocity with the Natural World (2016) (0)
- Chronological Listing of Papers Presented at The Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2016) (0)
- The Archaeology of Wak'as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes. Tamara L. Bray, editor. 2015. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, xvi + 403 pp., 73 illustrations. $70. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60732-317-4. (2015) (0)
- Hierarchy, Power, Identity and Time: Building a Khipu Simulacrum of Chachapoya Society at Laguna de los Cóndores (2015) (0)
- Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics. Papers from a conference, March 1981. (1982) (0)
- Color in Wari and Inka Khipus (2016) (0)
- Book-Review - Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics Conference 1981MAR (1982) (0)
- The Tension between Standardization and Regionalism in Cord-Keeping in Tawantinsuyu (2018) (0)
- Is Poverty in our Genes?: A Reply to Ashraf and Galor (2013) (0)
- Contemporary Indigenous Education (2012) (0)
- Skywatching in the Ancient World (2017) (0)
- When Stars Came down to Earth: Cosmology of the Skidi Pawnee Indians of North America@@@At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology (1983) (0)
- EIGHT Recording Signs in Narrative-Accounting Khipu (2002) (0)
- Urton provides a strong claim for considering this patterned mantle within a larger cultural tradition sensitive to the polyvalence of ritual knowledge. His co-editor Clive Ruggles takes on the architecture (2008) (0)
- The astronomy of Tawantinsuyu (2021) (0)
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