This volume explores the ushnu, a central feature of Inca sacred architecture used for ritual, sacrifice, and solar observation. Built as stepped stone platforms linked to drains or basins, ushnus symbolised the flow of sacred essence between gods, rulers, and people. Drawing on papers from a 2010 British Museum conference, contributors examine their construction, placement, and role in territorial control, landscape management, and cultural continuity from pre-Inca times to the present Andean world.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book focuses on one of the most significant manifestations of Inca sacred space - the 'ushnu' - a place of sacrifice, ritual and celebration, where the sun god was worshipped and where astronomical observations were made to monitor the yearly seasonal cycle. Physically theushnuis a (stone built) stepped platform linked to a drain or a basin into which liquids can flow. Theushnuis seen as a place for the circulation of sacred essences between the world of the gods, the ruler, his people and their ancestors. The authors in this book examine the practical and symbolic principles underlying the construction ofushnus, the rationale for their placement, their function within the landscape and the activities that took place on them. The ingenious symbolic and practical architectural construction of theushnucomplex was deployed to appropriate and transform newly conquered subject territories. The best-known survivingushnuplatforms are conspicuous features at all the main settlements and administrative centres on the Inca royal roads, and at nodal points in the wider environment. This great arterial network and its associatedushnucomplexes were fashioned to enhance the productive capacity of the landscape and to regulate the flow of key agricultural commodities. When Pizarro took the Inca king, Atahuallpa, prisoner, he did this at a location of Atahuallpa's choice which we now know to have been theushnuplatform at the centre of the Inca site of Cajamarca, in the Northern Highlands of Peru. The papers united in this volume review the nature, expression, role and function of theushnuconcept from its pre-Inca origins through its interpretation in Tawantinsuyu, the Inca empire into its current Andean cultural context. These papers were presented at a two-day conference at the British Museum in November 2010 and the BM have recently released this video on their project: youtu.be/oT9NdKpUwdU>. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781909492059
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