Author: Ann KendallPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Aspects of Inca Architecture
Author: Ann KendallInca Architecture
Author: Graziano GaspariniPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Aspects of Inca Architecture
Author: Architecture - Design Methods - Inca Structures. Festschrift for Jean-Pierre Protzen
Author: Johanna DehlingerPublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 3899586697
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This Festschrift is a collection of essays in honor of Jean-Pierre Protzen on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
Aspects of Inca Architecture
Author: Ann KendallThe Inca World
Author: Laura Laurencich MinelliPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132211
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archeological research and Spanish colonial documentation, provides important insights into many questions and contradictions regarding the Inca Empire. 337 illustrations, 106 in color. 12 maps.
Ritual and Water in Inca Architecture
Author: Clifford Gary NiedererPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 130
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At Home with the Sapa Inca
Author: Stella NairPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477302506
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
By examining the stunning stone buildings and dynamic spaces of the royal estate of Chinchero, Nair brings to light the rich complexity of Inca architecture. This investigation ranges from the paradigms of Inca scholarship and a summary of Inca cultural practices to the key events of Topa Inca's reign and the many individual elements of Chinchero's extraordinary built environment. What emerges are the subtle, often sophisticated ways in which the Inca manipulated space and architecture in order to impose their authority, identity, and agenda. The remains of grand buildings, as well as a series of deft architectural gestures in the landscape, reveal the unique places that were created within the royal estate and how one space deeply informed the other. These dynamic settings created private places for an aging ruler to spend time with a preferred wife and son, while also providing impressive spaces for imperial theatrics that reiterated the power of Topa Inca, the choice of his preferred heir, and the ruler's close relationship with sacred forces. This careful study of architectural details also exposes several false paradigms that have profoundly misguided how we understand Inca architecture, including the belief that it ended with the arrival of Spaniards in the Andes. Instead, Nair reveals how, amidst the entanglement and violence of the European encounter, an indigenous town emerged that was rooted in Inca ways of understanding space, place, and architecture and that paid homage to a landscape that defined home for Topa Inca.
The Oxford Handbook of the Incas
Author: Sonia AlconiniPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190908033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
When Spaniards invaded their realm in 1532, the Incas ruled the largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas. Just over a century earlier, military campaigns began to extend power across a broad swath of the Andean region, bringing local societies into new relationships with colonists and officials who represented the Inca state. With Cuzco as its capital, the Inca empire encompassed a multitude of peoples of diverse geographic origins and cultural traditions dwelling in the outlying provinces and frontier regions. Bringing together an international group of well-established scholars and emerging researchers, this handbook is dedicated to revealing the origins of this empire, as well as its evolution and aftermath. Chapters break new ground using innovative multidisciplinary research from the areas of archaeology, ethnohistory and art history. The scope of this handbook is comprehensive. It places the century of Inca imperial expansion within a broader historical and archaeological context, and then turns from Inca origins to the imperial political economy and institutions that facilitated expansion. Provincial and frontier case studies explore the negotiation and implementation of state policies and institutions, and their effects on the communities and individuals that made up the bulk of the population. Several chapters describe religious power in the Andes, as well as the special statuses that staffed the state religion, maintained records, served royal households, and produced fine craft goods to support state activities. The Incas did not disappear in 1532, and the volume continues into the Colonial and later periods, exploring not only the effects of the Spanish conquest on the lives of the indigenous populations, but also the cultural continuities and discontinuities. Moving into the present, the volume ends will an overview of the ways in which the image of the Inca and the pre-Columbian past is memorialized and reinterpreted by contemporary Andeans.
Inca Architecture and Construction at Ollantaytambo
Author: Jean-Pierre ProtzenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This architectural study attempts to explain how the Incas, who did not have iron tools or a knowledge of the wheel, were able to mine and transport extremely heavy stone and rock, following which these materials were converted into remarkably large structures.