Sabine Hyland

Sabine Hyland is a professor of World Religions at St. Andrews. Her work focuses on khipus in colonial and modern Peru. She holds degrees from Cornell and Yale and has conducted research in Peru, Spain, Bolivia, Ecuador, and the US.

Memories of Bob Ascher, author of Code of the Quipu

08 Dec 2025 6 min read Bob Ascher

Writing under the pseudonym, Puck, Bob described his situation in the Anthropology Department at Cornell in the 1980s: “I spend two days a week on campus...I never visit the office of another