This book investigates the Inka carved outcrops in the Andean highlands in the context of pan-Andean stone cults which predated the Inka and continue to be practiced in modified forms to the present day.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Dedication
List of Figures
Introduction:Background, Purpose, Methodologies, and Findings, Source Materials
Chapter 1:Formal and Structural Analysis of Inka Carved Rocks
Carving Techniques
Pre-Inka Roots of Stone Carving and Rock Art
The Formal Elements of Inka Carved Rocks:
Structural Features Associated with Carved Rocks
Chapter 2:Carved Rocks on the Cusco Zeq'e Lines
Groundwork
Inka Landscape and Carved Rocks - Appearance, Experience, and Perception Inka Landscape and Carved Rocks - Essence, Imagination, and Stone Ideology
Summary
Chapter 3:The Birthplace of the Sun, Moon and the Inka Ancestors on the Island of the Sun and the Southern Basin of Lake Titicaca
Groundwork
Inka Landscape and Carved Rocks - Appearance, Experience, and Perception Inka Landscape and Carved Rocks -Essence, Imagination, and Stone Ideology
Chapter 4:Inka Pacariqtambo - A Landscape of Power Relations through Time
Groundwork
Inka Landscape and Carved Rocks -Appearance, Essence, and Perception
Inka Landscape and Carved Rocks -Essence, Imagination, and Stone Ideology
Chapter 5:Machu Picchu
Royal Estates
Machu Picchu
Groundwork
Inka Landscape and Carved Rocks - Appearance, Experience, and Perception
Inka Landscape and Carved Rocks - Essence, Imagination, and Stone Ideology
Conclusions
Chapter 6:Chinchero
Groundwork
Inka Landscape and Carved Rocks -Appearance, Experience, and Perception
Inka Landscape and Carved Rocks -Essence, Imagination, and Stone Ideology
Conclusions
Chapter 7:Discussion and Conclusions
Major Results of this Investigation
Relations with Stony Places Constructed in the Contemporary
National and Global Worlds
Conclusions
Afterword
References
