Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780822348078 |
ISBN10: | 0822348071 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 320 pages |
Size: | 235x156 mm |
Weight: | 499 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 53 b&w illustrations, 15 color plates |
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A Culture of Stone
Inka Perspectives on Rock
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 21 October 2010
Number of Volumes: Trade Paperback
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Short description:
Argues that the imperial Inka understood stone as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred; building in stone was a way of ordering unordered nature, domesticating untamed spaces, and claiming new territories.
Long description:
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.
“Art historian Dean has provided perhaps the best interpretation of how the
Inkas saw their environment, particularly their lithic one, and how this motivated their actions. . . . Her judicious use of historical documents, combined with thoughtful and critical analysis of contemporary Andean concepts that appear rooted in their pre-Hispanic ancestry, provides a new and refreshing perspective for understanding the Inkas’ culture of stone.” - Michael Malpass, Comparative Studies in Society and History
Inkas saw their environment, particularly their lithic one, and how this motivated their actions. . . . Her judicious use of historical documents, combined with thoughtful and critical analysis of contemporary Andean concepts that appear rooted in their pre-Hispanic ancestry, provides a new and refreshing perspective for understanding the Inkas’ culture of stone.” - Michael Malpass, Comparative Studies in Society and History
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Note on Orthography xv
Introduction: Coming to Terms with Inka Rocks 1
1. Rock and Remembrance 25
2. Rock and Reciprocity 65
3. Rock and Rule 103
4. Rock in Ruins 143
Notes 179
Glossary of Quechua Terms 255
Bibliography 257
Index 289
Acknowledgments xiii
Note on Orthography xv
Introduction: Coming to Terms with Inka Rocks 1
1. Rock and Remembrance 25
2. Rock and Reciprocity 65
3. Rock and Rule 103
4. Rock in Ruins 143
Notes 179
Glossary of Quechua Terms 255
Bibliography 257
Index 289