Inka Bird Idiom : Amazonian Feathers in the Andes / Claudia Brosseder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brosseder, Claudia, 1973- author.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series.

Pitt Latin American Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incas--Social life and customs.

Incas.

Andes Region.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]

Summary:

"From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the diverse fowl of the Amazon, the eastern Andean foothills, and the highlands. She shows how birds and feathers shaped Inka politics, launched wars, and initiated peace. Feathers provided protection against unpredictable enemies, made possible communication with deities, and brought an imagined Inka past into a political present. Richly textured contexts of feathered objects recovered from Late Horizon archaeological records and from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts written by Spanish interlocutors enable new insights into Inka visions of interspecies relationships, an Inka ontology, and Inka views of the place of the human in their ecology. Inka Bird Idiom invites reconsideration of the deep intellectual ties that connected the Amazon and the mountain forests with the Andean highlands and the Pacific coast."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Inka male rule in bird idiom

Feathers in action

Thinking from the Amazons and legacy of Macaws

Joining animals for triumph in war and peace

When an Amaru loses its vitalities

What Inca bird means for an Inka Ontology.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8229-8965-4

OCLC:

1443936133