Title: The archaeology of wak'as : explorations of the sacred in the pre-Columbian Andes /
Authors: Bray, Tamara L.,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Indians of South America Andes Antiquities.; Huacas.; Indians of South America Peru Antiquities; Antiquities; Huacas; Indians of South America Antiquities.; Andes Antiquities.; Peru Antiquities.; Andes; Peru
Contents: Andean wak'as and alternative configurations of persons, power, and things / Tamara L. Bray -- The whole world is watching : new perspectives on Andean animism / Catherine J. Allen -- Wak'as : entifications of the Andean sacred / Bruce Mannheim and Guillermo Salas Carreño -- What is a Wak'a? : When is a Wak'a? / Zachary J. Chase -- Pachacamac - old wak'a or Inka syncretic deity? : imperial transformation of the sacred landscape in the lower Ychsma (Lurin) Valley / Krzysztof Makowski -- Of blood and soil : tombs, wak'as, and the naturalization of social difference in the Inka heartland / Steve Kosiba --Men who would be rocks : the Inka wank'a / Carolyn Dean -- The importance of being Inka : ushnu platforms and their place in the Andean landscape / Frank M. Meddens -- Ordering the sacred and recreating Cuzco / Colin McEwan -- The shape of things to come : the genesis of Wari wak'as / Anita G. Cook -- Of monoliths and men : human-lithic encounters and the production of an animistic ecology at Khonkho Wankane / John W. Janusek -- Final reflections : Catequil as one wak'a among many / John R. Topic.