A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock

A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock

by Carolyn Dean (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 23 Nov 2010

ISBN 10: 0822348071
ISBN 13: 9780822348078