A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock

Author/Contributor(s):	Dean, Carolyn
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	10/21/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Argues that the imperial Inka understood stone as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred; building in stone was a way of ordering unordered nature, domesticating untamed spaces, and claiming new territories.