Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 336 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Contents |
1. Genre and Context in Inca Historical Narratives -- 2. Structuring Remembered History -- 3. Making History Visible -- 4. Huayna Capac's History -- 5. Huayna Capac's Royal Estate -- 6. The Architecture on the Estate -- 7. The Agricultural Works on the Estate -- 8. Huayna Capac's Built Legacy -- 9. Inca Architecture in Historical Context |
Summary |
In The Shape of Inca History, Susan Niles considers the ways in which the Inca concept of history informed their narratives, rituals, and architecture. Using sixteenth-century chronicles of Inca culture, legal documents from the first generation of conquest, and field investigation of architectural remains, she strategically explores the interplay of oral and written histories with the architectural record and provides a new and exciting understanding of the lives of the royal families on the eve of conquest. Niles focuses on the life of Huayna Capac, the Inca king who ruled at the time |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-325) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Huayna Capac, Inca, -approximately 1525 -- Contributions in architecture
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SUBJECT |
Huayna Capac, Inca, -approximately 1525 fast |
Subject |
Inca architecture -- Peru -- Yucay Region
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Incas -- Peru -- Yucay Region -- Historiography
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Incas -- Peru -- Yucay Region -- Kings and rulers
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Architecture
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Inca architecture
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Incas -- Historiography
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Incas -- Kings and rulers
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1587292947 |
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9781587292941 |
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