The Sacred Landscape of the Inca : : The Cusco Ceque System / / Brian S. Bauer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bauer, Brian S.,
• MitwirkendeR: Beyersdorff, Margot,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Original Ceque System Manuscript -- 3 Huacas -- 4 The Social Organization of Cusco and Its Ceque System -- 5 The Huacas and Ceques of Chinchaysuyu -- 6 The Huacas and Ceques of Antisuyu -- 7 The Huacas and Ceques of Collasuyu -- 8 The Huacas and Ceques of Cuntisuyu -- 9 Albornoz and the Cusco Ceque System -- 10 Systems of Huacas and Ceques: Past and Present -- 11 An Overview of the Cusco Ceque System -- Appendix 1: Rowe's (1980) and Zuidema's (1964) Numbering Systems for the Cusco Ceque System -- 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 -- Appendix 3: Suggested Glosses of Huaca Names -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Huaca Names -- Index of Ceques