Culture of Stone

Dean Carolyn Dean

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.

Sujets

• América del Sur
• Cultural studies
• South America
• History of the Americas
• Andes

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 21 octobre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822393177
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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A Culture of Stone

C A RO LY N D E A N

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A Culture of Stone

i N K A P E R S P E C T i V E S O N R O C K

Duke University Press / Durham and London / 2010

© 2010 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ♾ Designed by C. H. Westmoreland Typeset in Monotype Fournier by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges support for the publication of this book from the Arts Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Contents

List of Illustrationsix Acknowledgmentsxiii Note on Orthographyxv

IntroductIon Coming to Terms with Inka Rocks1

chapter oneRock and Remembrance25

chapter twoRock and Reciprocity65

chapter threeRock and Rule103

chapter fourRock in Ruins143

Notes179 Glossary of Quechua Terms255 Bibliography257 Index289

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Illustrations

All photographs by the author unless otherwise indicated.

 à E ŝ ( between page 48 and 49) 1. Third Stone or Intiwatana, Saywite 2. Carved outcrop, enko Grande 3. Carved monolith, Saywite 4. Sacred Rock replicating Mount Yanantin beyond, Machu Picchu 5. Tower, also known as the Temple of the Sun, Machu Picchu 6. Carved stone with steps and crevice, Saywite 7. Quillarumi, a carved rock located near an extensive waterworks 8. Royal Mausoleum, Machu Picchu 9. Chinkana Grande, Saqsaywaman 10. Curvilinear terracing, Moray 11. Carved rock passage, Saqsaywaman 12. Curvilinear terracing, Wiñay Wayna 13. Masonry with protuberances, Ôllantaytambo 14. Zigzag terraces, Saqsaywaman 15. Temple of the Condor, Machu Picchu

 î  ûE ŝ 1. “Indians worshiping a stone as a god”3 2. Structures arranged around crags, Machu Picchu9 3. Ôutcrop integrated into a masonry wall, Pisaq11