Research Catalog

Title

Inca sacred space : landscape, site and symbol in the Andes / edited by Frank Meddens, Katie Willis, Colin McEwan and Nicholas Branch.

Publication

London : Archetype Publications, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Meddens, F. M. (Frank M.)
• Willis, Katie, 1968-
• McEwan, Colin
• Branch, Nick

Description

vii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 30 cm

Alternative Title

Landscape, site and symbol in the Andes

Subject

• Incas
• Sacred space > Andes Region
• Cultural landscapes > Andes Region
• Temples > Andes Region
• Inca architecture
• Andes Region > Antiquities

Note

• "This volume developed out of a conference held at the British Museum in November 2010 as one of the outcomes of the project: 'Inca Ushnus: Landscape, Site and Symbol in the Andes'"--Acknowledgements.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Inca sacred space : landscape, site and symbol in the Andes / Frank Meddens, Katie Willis, Colin McEwan and Nicholas Branch -- The ushnus of Cusco and sacred centres in Andean ethnography, ethnohistory and archaeology / R. Tom Zuidema -- Cognizing and marking the Andean landscape : ushnu, apachetas, sayhuas and wankas / Colin McEwan -- The link : of sacred persons and places / Susan Ramirez -- Boundaries at the roof of the world : the ushnu and divisions in political and religious space / Frank Meddens -- Ushnus and interiority / Catherine Allen -- Learning about ushnus : social memories of the Inca state in a modern school setting in highland Bolivia / Denise Y. Arnold -- From Cuzco to the four quarters and vice versa : connecting sacred spaces through the movement of stone, sand, and soil / Dennis Ogburn -- The landscape, environment and pedo-sedimentary context of Inca stepped platforms ("ushnus"), Ayacucho, Peru / Nicholas Branch, Millena Frouin, Rob Kemp, Nathalie Marini, Frank Meddens, Chiwetazulu Onuora and Barbara Silva -- "Ritual mixing" : an ethnographic approach to the combination of fills from different origins in Inca ushnu platforms / Francisco Ferreira -- If all the world's a stage then what's anushnu? / Lawrence S. Coben -- Staging sound : acoustic reflections on Inca music, architecture and performance spaces / Henry Stobart -- Sacred mountains and rituals in the Andes / Carmen Escalante Gutiérrez and Ricardo Valderrama Fernández -- The Incas in the territory of the Chancas: usnukuna platforms and their antecedents / Cirilo Vivanco Pomacanchari -- Altars and altitude : the ushnu and the puna during the late horizon / Gabriel Ramón Joffré -- Lightning (illapa) and its manifestations : huacas and ushnus / John E. Staller -- Astronomical observations on Inca ushnus in the southern Andes / Ricardo Moyano -- The centre of the world and the Cusco ushnu complexes / I.S Farrington -- Choqek'iraw and its ceremonial platform called ushnu / Patrice Lecoq and Thibault Saintenoy -- The ushnu, the centre of the Inca world : an overview from the highlands of Piura, northern Peru / César Astuhuamán -- Tambo Colorado : an ushnu and more / Jean-Pierre Protzen -- The ushnus of Condesuyos / Mariusz Ziółkowski -- An 1800-year ice core history of climate and environment in the Andes of southern Peru and its relationship with highland/lowland cultural oscillations / Lonnie G. Thompson and Mary E. Davis -- Afterword : power and propitiation in the Andes / Tristan Platt.

ISBN

• 9781909492059
• 1909492051

LCCN

99960649237

OCLC

• 863192452
• ocn863192452
• SCSB-5773629

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries