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One of the few books you'll find on the Tiwanaku - scholarly exhibition catalogue
This is one of the few books to be found on the Tiwanaku people of Lake Titicaca. These are a people who pre-dated the Inca and for close to 800 years dominated the highlands in what is now Peru and Bolivia. Today their most visible remains is the gate of the sun and semi sunken temple on the shore of Lake Titicaca. They left no written records and in...
Published on December 27, 2005 by K. Maxwell
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Documentation around a museum exhibition
This book is a collection of photographs and some background text of an exhibition of the same title. The photographs are good. The information behind them is academic and dry. So beyond getting the book for some interesting photographs you would not need to including this book in things related to either Tiwanaku or the Inca. In fact the book makes a tepid case of...
Published on November 29, 2009 by blue jaguar
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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One of the few books you'll find on the Tiwanaku - scholarly exhibition catalogue,
By K. Maxwell "katmax1" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca (Hardcover)
This is one of the few books to be found on the Tiwanaku people of Lake Titicaca. These are a people who pre-dated the Inca and for close to 800 years dominated the highlands in what is now Peru and Bolivia.
Today their most visible remains is the gate of the sun and semi sunken temple on the shore of Lake Titicaca. They left no written records and in the immediate area of Tiwanaku city itself their remains have been poorly excavated over the years. Aside from their ruins perhaps their most stunning legacy has been their textiles. This book displays a number of gorgeous textiles that were produced by the Tiwanaku and Wari peoples - these textiles, most of them today in private collections, on display here for the first time in one place, are one of the main reasons to get this book. The text surrounding the textiles, snuff trays and sculptures produced in Tiwanaku and Wari illustrated in this book is scholarly. It draws on what little we have been able to find out about these people to show us a culture that was both savage, tightly integrated with nature and a people with high artistic sensibilities. If you want to know more about pre-Columbian cultures that extend beyond the Inca this book is one you should get for your collection about a little discussed people. If you enjoy pre-Columbian textiles this book should not be missed, if only for its colour illustrations.
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Documentation around a museum exhibition,
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This review is from: Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca (Hardcover)
This book is a collection of photographs and some background text of an exhibition of the same title. The photographs are good. The information behind them is academic and dry. So beyond getting the book for some interesting photographs you would not need to including this book in things related to either Tiwanaku or the Inca. In fact the book makes a tepid case of this link between Tiwanaku and the Inca. The Inca themselves identified with this area and claimed (as the current conquerors) the divine descendency from the Tiwanaku. But the Inca also strongly inherited their culture from the Wari, Moche, Chavin, and others.
If you are interested in Tiwanaku then 'the' prime resource is Ancient Tiwanaku (Case Studies in Early Societies). |
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Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca by Margaret Young-Sánchez (Hardcover - December 1, 2004)
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