Scale and the Incas
This dissertation studies the concept of scale in the worldview of the Inca civilization, and was precipitated by the countless "miniature" objects made throughout the Pre-Columbian Andean world. Often relegated to the background of scholarship, scaled objects are not well understood and h...
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Harvard University
2014
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Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11294 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11745704 |
Summary: | This dissertation studies the concept of scale in the worldview of the Inca civilization, and was precipitated by the countless "miniature" objects made throughout the Pre-Columbian Andean world. Often relegated to the background of scholarship, scaled objects are not well understood and have exerted little influence on the academic understandings of the Incas. === History of Art and Architecture |
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