chullpas (Other Keyword)
1-1 (1 Record)
Chullpas and the Political Relations with the Inside-world in the Inka Empire (2018)
DOCUMENT
Citation Only
Previous research has interpreted chullpas as open sepulchers, altars, and landmarks which participated in political projects mainly by helping to reproduce corporate identities through ancestor worship and by inscribing power hierarchies and territorial claims on the landscape. This paper builds on the premise that chullpas were not just things with a certain function, but non-human persons (wak'as) capable of acting in different ways, given the affordances of their corporeality as towers or...