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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First US edition. Paperback. 23 × 15cm, xviii + 296pp. Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops: From Past to Present presents a comprehensive analysis of the carved rocks the Inka created in the Andean highlands during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It provides an overview of Inka history, a detailed analysis of the techniques and styles of carving, and five comprehensive case studies. It opens in the Inka capital, Cusco, one of the two locations where the geometric style of Inka carving was authored by the ninth ruler Pachakuti Inka Yupanki. The following chapters move to the origin places on the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca and at Pumaurqu, southwest of Cusco, where the Inka constructed the emergence of the first members of their dynasty from sacred rock outcrops. The final case studies focus upon the royal estates of Machu Picchu and Chinchero. Machu Picchu is the second site where Pachakuti appears to have authored the geometric style. Chinchero was built by his son, Thupa Inka Yupanki, who adopted his father's strategy of rock carving and associated political messages. The methodology used in this book reconstructs relational networks between the sculpted outcrops, the land and people and examines how such networks have changed over time. The primary focus documents the specific political context of Inka carved rocks expanded into the performance of a stone ideology, which set Inka stone cults decidedly apart from earlier and later agricultural as well as ritual uses of empowered stones. When the Inka state formed in the mid-fifteenth century, carved rocks were used to mark local territories in and around Cusco. In the process of imperial expansion, selected outcrops were sculpted in peripheral regions to map Inka presence and showcase the cultivated and ordered geography of the state. Condition: There is light wear to the cover's edges, otherwise this copy is in good plus condition and remaining in strong readable condition.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDOffprint. Off-Print, Very Good Copy, Reasearch was done in the Chicha Valley located in the central highlands of Peru, There is foxing, tanning, and scuffing to the cover, Pages are clean, 8vo, 28 pages.

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173 pp.; c.200 illus., bibliography. Text: Dutch. Exh. catalogue Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam. Brussel, 2010. Hbk. KEYWORDS: 035 Zuid Amerika/Incas/Chimu/Moche etc.

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Illustrated Hardcover. Condition: Good Condition. No Dustjacket. 173 pages with many illustrations; good and clean condition; 1,3 kg shipping weight - 5 Euro Versandkosten für Deutschland.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book focuses on one of the most significant manifestations of Inca sacred space - the 'ushnu' - a place of sacrifice, ritual and celebration, where the sun god was worshipped and where astronomical observations were made to monitor the yearly seasonal cycle. Physically theushnuis a (stone built) stepped platform linked to a drain or a basin into which liquids can flow. Theushnuis seen as a place for the circulation of sacred essences between the world of the gods, the ruler, his people and their ancestors. The authors in this book examine the practical and symbolic principles underlying the construction ofushnus, the rationale for their placement, their function within the landscape and the activities that took place on them. The ingenious symbolic and practical architectural construction of theushnucomplex was deployed to appropriate and transform newly conquered subject territories. The best-known survivingushnuplatforms are conspicuous features at all the main settlements and administrative centres on the Inca royal roads, and at nodal points in the wider environment. This great arterial network and its associatedushnucomplexes were fashioned to enhance the productive capacity of the landscape and to regulate the flow of key agricultural commodities. When Pizarro took the Inca king, Atahuallpa, prisoner, he did this at a location of Atahuallpa's choice which we now know to have been theushnuplatform at the centre of the Inca site of Cajamarca, in the Northern Highlands of Peru. The papers united in this volume review the nature, expression, role and function of theushnuconcept from its pre-Inca origins through its interpretation in Tawantinsuyu, the Inca empire into its current Andean cultural context. These papers were presented at a two-day conference at the British Museum in November 2010 and the BM have recently released this video on their project: youtu.be/oT9NdKpUwdU>.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Inca Sacred Space | Landscape, Site and Symbol in the Andes | Frank Meddens (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2014 | Archetype Publications | EAN 9781909492059 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …