Brian S. Bauer

The Sacred Landscape of the Inca

The Cusco Ceque System

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Produktbeschreibung

The ceque system of Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire, was perhaps the most complex indigenous ritual system in the pre-Columbian Americas. From a center known as the Coricancha (Golden Enclosure) or the Temple of the Sun, a system of 328 huacas (shrines) arranged along 42 ceques (lines) radiated out toward the mountains surrounding the city. This elaborate network, maintained by ayllus (kin groups) that made offerings to the shrines in their area, organized the city both temporally and spiritually. From 1990 to 1995, Brian Bauer directed a major project to document the ceque system of Cusco. In this book, he synthesizes extensive archaeological survey work with archival research into the Inca social groups of the Cusco region, their land holdings, and the positions of the shrines to offer a comprehensive, empirical description of the ceque system. Moving well beyond previous interpretations, Bauer constructs a convincing model of the system's physical form and its relation to the social, political, and territorial organization of Cusco.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 673g
• ISBN-13: 9780292729018
• ISBN-10: 0292729014
• Artikelnr.: 33252977

Autorenporträt

One of the leading authorities on the Inca, Brian S. Bauer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

1. List of Illustrations and Tables
2. Preface
3. 1. Introduction
* The Shrines and Ceques of Cusco
* The Organization of Cusco and the Ceque System
* Studies of the Cusco Ceque System
4. 2. The Original Ceque System Manuscript
* The Date of the Original Ceque System Manuscript
* Sixteenth-Century Writings on the Cusco Ceque System
5. 3. Huacas
* The Huacas of the Cusco Ceque System
* Identifying Huacas: A Research Method
6. 4. The Social Organization of Cusco and Its Ceque System
* Collana, Payan, Cayao
* Kings, Ayllus, and Ceques
7. 5. The Huacas and Ceques of Chinchaysuyu
8. 6. The Huacas and Ceques of Antisuyu
9. 7. The Huacas and Ceques of Collasuyu
10. 8. The Huacas and Ceques of Cuntisuyu
11. 9. Albornoz and the Cusco Ceque System
* Albornoz and the Huacas of Chinchaysuyu
12. 10. Systems of Huacas and Ceques: Past and Present
* Evidence of Other Inca Ceques
* Possible Evidence of Pre-Inca Ceques: The Nazca Lines
* Modern Ritual Lines in the Andes
13. 11. An Overview of the Cusco Ceque System
14. Appendix 1: Rowe’s (1980) and Zuidema’s (1964) Numbering Systems for the
Cusco Ceque System
15. Appendix 2: Account of the shrines of Cuzco (Bernabé Cobo, Historia del
Nuevo Mundo, ms. 1653, Book Thirteen, Chapters 13–16). English translation
by John H. Rowe
16. Appendix 3: Suggested Glosses of Huaca Names by Margot Beyersdorff
17. Notes
18. Glossary of Aymara, English, Spanish, and Quechua Terms
19. Bibliography
20. Archival Sources
21. Printed Sources
22. General Index
23. Index of Huaca Names
24. Index of Ceques