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.

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Manuel Medrano

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

As in many academic fields, unpublished PhD dissertations on khipus can be difficult to locate and are largely underrecognized.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 the best known, though it is not the only one—nor the first—of its kind. Carlos