Culture of stone, a: inka perspectives on rock
Auteur :
Dean, Carolyn
Éditeur :
Duke University Press
ISBN :
9780822348078
Date de publication :
21 oct. 2010
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
499 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.