Callachaca: Style and Status in an Inca Community

By Susan A. Niles

Inca constructions, designed to conform to a state aesthetic, reveal the worldview of these masters of social and architectural engineering. In her meticulous analysis of CallachacaOCothe fifteenth-century estate of the royal Amaro Topa Inca and his retainers near the ancient capital of CuzcoOCoSusan Niles shows us that the physical order seen in this planned community reflects the Inca vision of an appropriate social order."Callachaca: Style and Status in an Inca Community" will be valuable reading for archaeologists, art historians, geographers, architects with an interest in pre-Columbian cultures, landscape architects, anthropologists, folklorists, and historians with a special interest in the Andes. Since she focuses on all the varied architectural remains at one site in the Inca heartland, Niles provides a unique model for examining royal Inca architecture and society."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087745177X
• ISBN13: 9780877451778
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Iowa University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"