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A Culture of Stone - Inka Perspectives on Rock (Hardcover, New)
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A Culture of Stone - Inka Perspectives on Rock (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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