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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Jessica Joyce Christie is an associate professor at the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University.
Summary
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.
