UID:
almafu_9959674058302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (323 p.) :
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53 b&w illustrations, 15 color plates
ISBN:
9780822393177
Inhalt:
A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a vital role in the unfolding of Inka history. Examining the multiple uses of stone, she argues that the Inka understood building in stone as a way of ordering the chaos of unordered nature, converting untamed spaces into domesticated places, and laying claim to new territories. Dean contends that understanding what the rocks signified requires seeing them as the Inka saw them: as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred. Through careful analysis of Inka stonework, colonial-period accounts of the Inka, and contemporary ethnographic and folkloric studies of indigenous Andean culture, Dean reconstructs the relationships between stonework and other aspects of Inka life, including imperial expansion, worship, and agriculture. She also scrutinizes meanings imposed on Inka stone by the colonial Spanish and, later, by tourism and the tourist industry. A Culture of Stone is a compelling multidisciplinary argument for rethinking how we see and comprehend the Inka past.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Note on Orthography --
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Introduction. Coming to Terms with Inka Rocks --
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Chapter One. Rock and Remembrance --
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Chapter Two. Rock and Reciprocity --
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Chapter Three. Rock and Rule --
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Chapter Four. Rock in Ruins --
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Notes --
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Glossary of Quechua Terms --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9780822393177
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393177
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822393177
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393177
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822393177
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