Author: Museum of Fine Arts, BostonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
TO WEAVE FOR THE SUN.
Author: Museum of Fine Arts, BostonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
To Weave for the Sun
Author: Rebecca Stone-MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
To Weave for the Sun
Author: Rebecca StonePublisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
ISBN: 9780878463602
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
To Weave for the Sun. Acient Andean Textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Author: To Weave for the Sun
Author: Rebecca Stone-MillerTo Weave for the Sun
Author: Rebecca Stone-MillerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500277935
Category : Indian textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Textiles were the Incas' most prized possessions. Their first gifts to European strangers were made not of gold and silver, but of camelid fibre and cotton. They believed that the highest form of weaving was created expressly for the sun, which they considered the greatest of the celestial powers.
Synopsis
Author: Andrew D. DimarogonasPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9789057025778
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Lists the scholarly publications including research and review journals, books, and monographs relating to classical, Hellenistic, Biblical, Byzantine, Medieval, and modern Greece. The 11 indexes include article title and author, books reviewed, theses and dissertations, books and authors, journals, names, locations, and subjects. The format continues that of the second volume. All the information has been programmed onto the disc in a high-level language, so that no other software is needed to read it, and in versions for DOS and Apple on each disc. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Andean Expressions
Author: George F. LauPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587299747
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Flourishing from A.D. 1 to 700, the Recuay inhabited lands in northern Peru just below the imposing glaciers of the highest mountain chain in the tropics. Thriving on an economy of high-altitude crops and camelid herding, they left behind finely made artworks and grand palatial buildings with an unprecedented aesthetic and a high degree of technical sophistication. In this first in-depth study of these peoples, George Lau situates the Recuay within the great diversification of cultural styles associated with the Early Intermediate Period, provides new and significant evidence to evaluate models of social complexity, and offers fresh theories about life, settlement, art, and cosmology in the high Andes. Lau crafts a nuanced social and historical model in order to evaluate the record of Recuay developments as part of a wider Andean prehistory. He analyzes the rise and decline of Recuay groups as well as their special interactions with the Andean landscape. Their coherence was expressed as shared culture, community, and corporate identity, but Lau also reveals its diversity through time and space in order to challenge the monolithic characterizations of Recuay society pervasive in the literature today. Many of the innovations in Recuay culture, revealed for the first time in this landmark volume, left a lasting impact on Andean history and continue to have relevance today. The author highlights the ways that material things intervened in ancient social and political life, rather than being merely passive reflections of historical change, to show that Recuay public art, exchange, technological innovations, warfare, and religion offer key insights into the emergence of social hierarchy and chiefly leadership and the formation, interaction, and later dissolution of large discrete polities. By presenting Recuay artifacts as fundamentally social in the sense of creating and negotiating relations among persons, places, and things, he recognizes in the complexities of the past an enduring order and intelligence that shape the contours of history.
Variations in the Expression of Inka Power
Author: Richard L. BurgerPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884023517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture in Andean South America before the 16th-century arrival of the Spaniards. Using both theoretical and methodological approaches, scholars of the sciences, social sciences, and humanities provide a new understanding of Inka culture and history.
Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric
Author: Penny DransartPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134466374
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explores the relationship that herders of the present and of the past have maintained with their herd animals in the Andes. Dransart juxtaposes an ethnography of an Aymara herding community, based on more than ten years fieldwork in Isluga in the Chilean highlands, with archaeological material from excavations in the Atacama desert. Impeccably researched, this book is the first systematic study to set the material culture of pastoral communities against an understanding of the long-term effects of herding practices.