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The royal Inca tunic : a biography of an Andean masterpiece
\"The most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system. But very little is really known about it. The Royal Inca Tunic reconstructs the history of this enigmatic object, presenting significant new findings about its manufacture and symbolism in Inca visual culture. Andrew James Hamilton draws on meticulous physical examinations of the garment conducted over a decade, wide-ranging studies of colonial Peruvian manuscripts, and groundbreaking research into the tunic's provenance. He methodically builds a case for the textile having been woven by two women who belonged to the very highest echelon of Inca artists for the last emperor of the Inca Empire on the eve of the Spanish invasion in 1532. Hamilton reveals for the first time that this imperial vestment remains unfinished and has suffered massive dye fading that transforms its appearance today, and he proposes a bold new conception of what this radiant masterpiece originally looked like. Featuring stunning photography of the tunic and Hamilton's own beautiful illustrations, The Royal Inca Tunic demonstrates why this object holds an important place in the canon of art history as a deft creation by Indigenous women artists, a reminder of the horrors of colonialism, and an emblem of contemporary Andean identity.\"-- Publisher's website.
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The Metamorphosis of Heads
Since the days of the Spanish Conquest, the indigenous populations of Andean Bolivia have struggled to preserve their textile-based writings. This struggle continues today, both in schools and within the larger culture.The Metamorphosis of Headsexplores the history and cultural significance of Andean textile writings--weavings and kipus (knotted cords), and their extreme contrasts in form and production from European alphabet-based texts. Denise Arnold examines the subjugation of native texts in favor of European ones through the imposition of homogenized curricula by the Educational Reform Law. As Arnold reveals, this struggle over language and education directly correlates to long-standing conflicts for land ownership and power in the region, since the majority of the more affluent urban population is Spanish speaking, while indigenous languages are spoken primarily among the rural poor.The Metamorphosis of Headsacknowledges the vital importance of contemporary efforts to maintain Andean history and cultural heritage in schools, and shows how indigenous Andean populations have incorporated elements of Western textual practices into their own textual activities.
Based on extensive fieldwork over two decades, and historical, anthropological, and ethnographic research, Denise Arnold assembles an original and richly diverse interdisciplinary study. The textual theory she proposes has wider ramifications for studies of Latin America in general, while recognizing the specifically regional practices of indigenous struggles in the face of nation building and economic globalization.
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Weaving and the Construction of a Gender Division of Labor in Early Colonial Peru
In early Peru textiles were both a lucrative commodity and a cultural symbol to which a large portion of the Andean community was devoted. Woven cloths were used in important rituals, offered as gifts to nobility, and used for class and ethnic distinction. Since the first consensus was conducted well after the production of the textiles began, there is little documentation on colonial labor division practices, but women are believed to have contributed to the weaving.
Journal Article
Clothing the Architectonic Body
The year 1650 serves as a crucial date for colonial Cuzco, dividing the city’s history along the fault lines of the most devastating earthquake to hit the region during the colonial period. The tremendous amount of destruction wrought by this seismic disaster necessitated an organized and systematic building campaign. Bishop Manuel de Mollinedo y Angulo offered a silver lining to the dark cloud that hovered over post-1650 Cuzco. Appointed in 1673, Mollinedo worked tirelessly to help restore and rebuild churches, convents, and monasteries throughout the Cuzco diocese until his death in 1699. His role as one of Cuzco’s greatest and
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A stitch in time
How often have you heard the complaint \"things just aren't made to last the way they used to be?\" Despite advanced technology, today's manufacturers of textiles have been unable to duplicate the intricate weaving techniques of the Inca empire-- a process which produced textiles that remain nearly intact four centuries after the Spanish conquest.
Magazine Article
Christ of the Earthquakes
In the years following the 1650 Cusco earthquake, the Cathedral was repaired and finished, and finally, after ninety-four years of construction, it was inaugurated in 1654. Sitting high above the main plaza, the edifice is an imposing baroque monument to the triumph of Christianity in the Andes. The parish church of Spaniards and the seat of the bishop andcabildo(ruling council), the church was the home of the city’s new colonial elite.¹ But it was also a hybrid structure, built by native artisans with stones from Sacsahuaman and sacred sand that had filled the Inca plaza.² Anyone familiar with
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THE CLOTH OF CONTEMPORARY INCAS
Browsers in Puno markets on a brisk winter day find a few Taquilean belts and caps fluttering from the top of kiosks or hidden among mounds of dolls, sweaters, gloves, and scarves handmade elsewhere. The Taquilean textiles, typically woven and knit by teenagers, are generally higher in quality than the others on display, but still inferior to those Taquileans themselves wear.
Visitors on the Puno dock awaiting Taquile-bound boats encounter Taquilean cloth on the bodies of Taquilean people. The fine clothing—in dramatic red, black, and white—crosses boundaries of ethnicity and authenticity. Once an icon of despised indianness, it
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From the coastal lowlands to the mountain highlands the expressive art of Inca textiles
A children's article on Incan weaving is presented. Weaving was the most important Incan craft.
Magazine Article