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Shimmering Foundation: The Twelve-Angled Stone of Inca Cusco.
- Source :
- Critical Inquiry; Autumn2010, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p60-105, 46p, 24 Black and White Photographs, 2 Illustrations, 1 Diagram
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- The article focuses on the historic structure of the Inca building's Stone of Twelve Angles located at 410 Calle Hatunrumiyoc in Cusco, Peru. It notes that the challenging formalism of the stone in the context of historiography affords an opportunity to reassess Inca visuality ass cultural production. It indicates that the monumental Inca building may be assigned an Inca identity as the sacred agricultural terrace of Shimmering Foundation, which was built in the decades around AD 1500.
- Subjects :
- INCA architecture
HISTORIC buildings
HISTORIOGRAPHY
CULTURAL production
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00931896
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Critical Inquiry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 55325391
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1086/656469