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A culture of stone : Inka perspectives on rock / Carolyn Dean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dean, Carolyn, 1957-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inca architecture.
- Inca sculpture.
- Andes Region--Antiquities.
- Andes Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Rock and remembrance
- Rock and reciprocity
- Rock and rule
- Rock in ruins.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065711
- 9781283065719
- 1283065711
- 9780822393177
- 0822393174
- OCLC:
- 672203146
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