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A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock

By Carolyn Dean

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780822393177
DOI
10.1515/9780822393177
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10540175 bytes)
Pages
320\323
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 13:58:56

Description

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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