Manuel Medrano

Manny Medrano is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at Harvard University, where he examines pre-Columbian texts, artifacts, and scientific practices, and the history of their transmission, reception, and study in the Americas and worldwide.

An Underrecognized Doctoral Thesis on Inka Khipus: Antonia Molina Muntó, 1975

21 Dec 2025 11 min read Manuel Medrano

As in many academic fields, unpublished PhD dissertations on khipus can be difficult to locate and are largely underrecognized. Anthropologist Carol Mackey’s “Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru” (1970) is perhaps