Inca sacred space
Subtitle: landscape, site and symbol in the Andes
By: edited by Frank Meddens, Katie Willis, Colin McEwan and Nicholas Branch
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781909492059
Subjects: Incas; Sacred space; Cultural landscapes; Temples; Inca architecture; Antiquities
Other titles: Landscape, site and symbol in the Andes
Notes: "This volume developed out of a conference held at the British Museum in November 2010 as one of the outcomes of the project: 'Inca Ushnus: Landscape, Site and Symbol in the Andes'"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Inca sacred space : landscape, site and symbol in the Andes / Frank Meddens, Katie Willis, Colin McEwan and Nicholas Branch; title: The ushnus of Cusco and sacred centres in Andean ethnography, ethnohistory and archaeology / R. Tom Zuidema; title: Cognizing and marking the Andean landscape : ushnu, apachetas, sayhuas and wankas / Colin McEwan; title: The link : of sacred persons and places / Susan Ramirez; title: Boundaries at the roof of the world : the ushnu and divisions in political and religious space / Frank Meddens; title: Ushnus and interiority / Catherine Allen; title: Learning about ushnus : social memories of the Inca state in a modern school setting in highland Bolivia / Denise Y. Arnold; title: From Cuzco to the four quarters and vice versa : connecting sacred spaces through the movement of stone, sand, and soil / Dennis Ogburn; title: The landscape, environment and pedo-sedimentary context of Inca stepped platforms ("ushnus"), Ayacucho, Peru / Nicholas Branch, Millena Frouin, Rob Kemp, Nathalie Marini, Frank Meddens, Chiwetazulu Onuora and Barbara Silva; title: "Ritual mixing" : an ethnographic approach to the combination of fills from different origins in Inca ushnu platforms / Francisco Ferreira; title: If all the world's a stage then what's anushnu? / Lawrence S. Coben; title: Staging sound : acoustic reflections on Inca music, architecture and performance spaces / Henry Stobart; title: Sacred mountains and rituals in the Andes / Carmen Escalante Gutiérrez and Ricardo Valderrama Fernández; title: The Incas in the territory of the Chancas: usnukuna platforms and their antecedents / Cirilo Vivanco Pomacanchari; title: Altars and altitude : the ushnu and the puna during the late horizon / Gabriel Ramón Joffré; title: Lightning (illapa) and its manifestations : huacas and ushnus / John E. Staller; title: Astronomical observations on Inca ushnus in the southern Andes / Ricardo Moyano; title: The centre of the world and the Cusco ushnu complexes / I.S Farrington; title: Choqek'iraw and its ceremonial platform called ushnu / Patrice Lecoq and Thibault Saintenoy; title: The ushnu, the centre of the Inca world : an overview from the highlands of Piura, northern Peru / César Astuhuamán; title: Tambo Colorado : an ushnu and more / Jean-Pierre Protzen; title: The ushnus of Condesuyos / Mariusz Ziółkowski; title: An 1800-year ice core history of climate and environment in the Andes of southern Peru and its relationship with highland/lowland cultural oscillations / Lonnie G. Thompson and Mary E. Davis; title: Afterword : power and propitiation in the Andes / Tristan Platt.