Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Susan A. Niles
• IZUMI SHIMADA

Titel

Considering Inka Royal Estates: Architecture, Economy, History

Ist Teil von

• The Inka Empire, 2015, p.233

Ort / Verlag

University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Inka royal estates present a vision of the perfect Inka landscape: they are productive, they are useful, they are beautiful; they may incorporate lakes, parks, palaces, or fields. Many had towns to house a resident population of subject people working to sustain the Inka who had conquered their homeland. Estates include places for devotion and for such elite recreational activities as hunting, raising birds, and gardening. They were places created with little regard to what is practical: the construction of estates might have required builders to move a river from one side of the valley to another, or to build