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At Home with the Sapa Inca
Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero
Taschenbuch von Stella Nair
Sprache: Englisch

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By examining the stunning stone buildings and dynamic spaces of the royal estate of Chinchero, Nair brings to light the rich complexity of Inca architecture. This investigation ranges from the paradigms of Inca scholarship and a summary of Inca cultural practices to the key events of Topa Inca's reign and the many individual elements of Chinchero's extraordinary built environment.

What emerges are the subtle, often sophisticated ways in which the Inca manipulated space and architecture in order to impose their authority, identity, and agenda. The remains of grand buildings, as well as a series of deft architectural gestures in the landscape, reveal the unique places that were created within the royal estate and how one space deeply informed the other. These dynamic settings created private places for an aging ruler to spend time with a preferred wife and son, while also providing impressive spaces for imperial theatrics that reiterated the power of Topa Inca, the choice of his preferred heir, and the ruler's close relationship with sacred forces.

This careful study of architectural details also exposes several false paradigms that have profoundly misguided how we understand Inca architecture, including the belief that it ended with the arrival of Spaniards in the Andes. Instead, Nair reveals how, amidst the entanglement and violence of the European encounter, an indigenous town emerged that was rooted in Inca ways of understanding space, place, and architecture and that paid homage to a landscape that defined home for Topa Inca.
By examining the stunning stone buildings and dynamic spaces of the royal estate of Chinchero, Nair brings to light the rich complexity of Inca architecture. This investigation ranges from the paradigms of Inca scholarship and a summary of Inca cultural practices to the key events of Topa Inca's reign and the many individual elements of Chinchero's extraordinary built environment.

What emerges are the subtle, often sophisticated ways in which the Inca manipulated space and architecture in order to impose their authority, identity, and agenda. The remains of grand buildings, as well as a series of deft architectural gestures in the landscape, reveal the unique places that were created within the royal estate and how one space deeply informed the other. These dynamic settings created private places for an aging ruler to spend time with a preferred wife and son, while also providing impressive spaces for imperial theatrics that reiterated the power of Topa Inca, the choice of his preferred heir, and the ruler's close relationship with sacred forces.

This careful study of architectural details also exposes several false paradigms that have profoundly misguided how we understand Inca architecture, including the belief that it ended with the arrival of Spaniards in the Andes. Instead, Nair reveals how, amidst the entanglement and violence of the European encounter, an indigenous town emerged that was rooted in Inca ways of understanding space, place, and architecture and that paid homage to a landscape that defined home for Topa Inca.
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By Stella Nair
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Quechua

Introduction

1. Pirca – Wall

2. Pacha – Place and Time

3. Pampa – Plaza

4. Puncu – Doorway

5. Uasi – House

6. Pata – Platform

7. Llacta – Community

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781477302507
ISBN-10: 1477302506
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Nair, Stella
Hersteller: University of Texas Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 280 x 216 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Stella Nair
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2015
Gewicht: 0,736 kg
Artikel-ID: 105047938
Ãœber den Autor
By Stella Nair
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Quechua

Introduction

1. Pirca – Wall

2. Pacha – Place and Time

3. Pampa – Plaza

4. Puncu – Doorway

5. Uasi – House

6. Pata – Platform

7. Llacta – Community

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781477302507
ISBN-10: 1477302506
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Nair, Stella
Hersteller: University of Texas Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 280 x 216 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Stella Nair
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2015
Gewicht: 0,736 kg
Artikel-ID: 105047938
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