Inca sacred space : landscape, site and symbol in the Andes
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Landscape, site and symbol in the Andes |
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Meddens, F. M.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London :
Archetype Publications,
2014.
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| Umfang/Format: |
vii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 cm. |
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| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Andes |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
- 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
