Sabine Hyland

Sabine Hyland
Hyland with khipu board
Born (1964-08-26) August 26, 1964 (age 60)
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropologist
Sub-disciplineAndean ethnohistory
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Sabine Hyland (born Campbell, August 26, 1964) is an American anthropologist and ethnohistorian working in the Andes. She is currently Professor of World Christianity at the University of St Andrews.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

Hyland's research has appeared in media outlets around the world, such as the BBC World Service, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Slate.[4][5][6][7] In 2011, National Geographic filmed a documentary about her research on khipu boards as part of their series Ancient X-Files.[8]

  1. ^ "Sabine Hyland | University of St Andrews – Academia.edu". st-andrews.academia.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  2. ^ Alex, Bridget (4 January 2019). "The Inka Empire Recorded Their World In Knotted Cords Called Khipu". Discover.
  3. ^ Hyland, Sabine. "About". Sabine Hyland.
  4. ^ "BBC World Service – Outlook, Deciphering the messages left by the Incas". BBC. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  5. ^ "Discovery May Help Decipher Ancient Inca String Code". National Geographic News. 2017-04-19. Archived from the original on April 21, 2017. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  6. ^ Hyland, Sapiens, Sabine. "Unraveling an Ancient Code Written in Strings". Scientific American. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  7. ^ Adams, Mark (2011-07-12). "Inca Paradox: Maybe the pre-Columbian civilization did have writing". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  8. ^ "Sabine Hyland » Blog Archive » Decoding the Incas". sabinehyland.com. Retrieved 2019-02-28.