Tamara L Bray

Objects of Empire

The Ceramic Tradition of the Imperial Inca State

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Produktbeschreibung

A comparative, empire-wide study of the ceramics associated with the imperial Inca state, theorizing the role of these highly recognizable vessel forms in legitimizing Inca rule and establishing imperial identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 223mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 1316g
• ISBN-13: 9781477330685
• ISBN-10: 1477330682
• Artikelnr.: 71986381

Autorenporträt

Tamara L. Bray is a professor of anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is the author or editor of several books including The Archaeology of Wak’as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes, Visual Languages of the Inca, and The Future of the Past: Archaeologists, Native Americans, and Repatriation.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Repositories Where Inca Ceramic Collections Were Photo-Documented
Chapter 1. Inca Pottery from Multiple Angles
Chapter 2. Tawantinsuyu and the Antecedents of Imperial Inca Pottery
Chapter 3. The Imperial Inca Ceramic Assemblage
Chapter 4. Andean Foodways and Inca Pottery
Chapter 5. Inca Pottery Production
Chapter 6. Elements of Imperial Design
Chapter 7. Interpretive Approaches to Inca Iconography
Chapter 8. Inca Ceramics around the Empire
Chapter 9. Things Make the State
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index