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Sabine Hyland

Anthropology

#874

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#1186

Historical Rank

#446

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Cultural Anthropology

#162

World Rank

#202

Historical Rank

#92

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Sabine Hyland's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Sabine Hyland is an American anthropologist and ethnohistorian working in the Andes. She is currently Professor of World Christianity at the University of St Andrews. She is best known for her work studying khipus and hybrid khipu-alphabetic texts in the Central Andes and is credited with the first potential phonetic decipherment of an element of a khipu. She has also written extensively about the interaction between Spanish missionaries and the Inca in colonial Peru, focusing on language, religion and missionary culture, as well as the history of the Chanka people.

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Sabine Hyland's Published Works

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The Jesuit and the Incas : the extraordinary life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J. (2003) (92)
Knot Direction in a Khipu/Alphabetic Text from the Central Andes (2014) (19)
Ply, markedness and redundancy : new evidence for how Andean khipus encoded information (2014) (14)
Writing with Twisted Cords: The Inscriptive Capacity of Andean Khipus (2017) (13)
How khipus indicated labour contributions in an Andean village: An explanation of colour banding, seriation and ethnocategories (2016) (11)
Illegitimacy and Racial Hierarchy in the Peruvian Priesthood: A Seventeenth-Century Dispute (1998) (10)
Graphic Pluralism: Native American Systems of Inscription and the Colonial Situation : Guest Editors Introduction (2010) (10)
The imprisonment of Blas Valera: heresy and Inca history in colonial Perú (1998) (4)
The Quito Manuscript: An Inca History Preserved by Fernando de Montesinos (2007) (3)
Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity (2011) (3)
Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley , Coastal Peru (2018) (3)
The Chankas and the Priest: A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru (2016) (3)
The Chankas and the Priest (2016) (2)
At Home with the Sapa Inca: Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero (2017) (2)
SEVEN Woven Words: The Royal Khipu of Blas Valera (2002) (2)
Khipus, Khipu Boards, and Sacred Texts: Toward a Philology of Andean Knotted Cords (2021) (1)
Festival Threads: Khipu Calendars and Mercedarian Missions in Rapaz, Peru (c. 1565–1825) (2021) (1)
Subject Indicators and the Decipherment of Genre on Andean Khipus (2021) (1)
The Jesuit and the Incas (2003) (1)
Biblical Prophecy and the Conquest of Peru: Fernando de Montesinos' "Memorias historiales" (2002) (1)
Sodomy, Sin, and String Writing: The Moral Origins of Andean Khipu (2010) (1)
Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560–1650 by Regina Harrison (review) (2015) (1)
Indigenous Record Keeping and Hacienda Culture in the Andes: Modern Khipu Accounting on the Island of the Sun, Bolivia (2021) (1)
Book Review: The Jesuits: Missions, Myths, and Histories (2006) (1)
The Jesuits in Latin America, 1549–2000: 450 Tears of Inculturation, Defense of Human Rights, and Prophetic Witness . By Jeffrey L. Klaiber, S.J. Saint Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2009. Pp. viii, 463. Pp. viii, 463. Maps. Bibliography. Index. (2011) (0)
Of Summits and Sacriflce: An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices (2011) (0)
Translated Christianities. Nahuatl and Maya religious texts. By Mark Z. Christensen. (Latin American Originals, 8.) Pp. xv + 135 incl. 4 figs. University Park, Pa: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. $29.95 (paper). 978 0 271 06361 5 (2015) (0)
Spanish King of the Incas: The Epic Life of Pedro Bohorques (review) (2007) (0)
Religion/Religious Practices (2015) (0)
A Concubine Redeemed: The 1603 Case of Luisa, Indian of Chile (1996) (0)
Secret strings: The sounds of fibre and ply (2021) (0)
Angels, Demons And The New World ed. by Fernando Cervantes, Andrew Redden (review) (2014) (0)
Laywomen and the making of colonial Catholicism in New Spain, 1630–1790. By Jessica L. Delgado. (Cambridge Latin American Studies.) Pp. xiv + 282 incl. 2 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £75. 978 1 107 1994 8 (2020) (0)
Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing (2023) (0)
The Jesuits in Latin America, 1549–2000: 450 Years of Inculturation, Defense of Human Rights, and Prophetic Witness (review) (2011) (0)
Khipu Historiography (2020) (0)
Book Review: The Pyramid under the Cross: Franciscan Discourses of Evangelization and the Nahua Christian Subject in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (2006) (0)
Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas: Intercultural Transfers, Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities. Marc André Bernier, Clorinda Donato, and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. x + 464 pp. $80. (2015) (0)
The Protectors of Indians in the Royal Audience of Lima: History, Careers and Legal Culture. 1575–1775 , written by Mauricio Novoa (2017) (0)

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