Book
The sacred landscape of the Inca: the Cusco ceque system
University of Texas Press • Austin • Published In 1998 • Pages:
By: Bauer, Brian S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this work Bauer attempts to reconstruct the Cusco CEQUE system, a ritual system composed of several hundred shrines or HUACAS roughly located along a series of forty-one lines or CEQUES radiating from the Temple of the Sun in Cusco. This document describes how the Inka people, both nobles and commoners, worshipped at and maintained these shrines and how these shrines were eventually destroyed by the Spaniards in their campaigns against idolatry. Appendix 2, ( pp. 165-177), written by Bernabé Cobo, presents a description of the shrines of Cusco and the names of the various CEQUES along which they were located. Margot Beyersdorff, in appendix 3, (pp. 179-210) , provides an index of the specific names of the shrines in the Cusco CESQUE system along with the translation of these names into Quechua, Spanish, and English, their position along the CEQUES, and their location in each of the four quarters (SUYUS) into which the Inka empire was divided.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Place names
- Topography and geology
- Water supply
- Maintenance of non-domestic buildings
- Lineages
- Clans
- Territorial hierarchy
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Sacred objects and places
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Ethnogeography
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Inka
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1990-1995
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1532-ca. 1600
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cusco (Cuzco) city and valley, Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Brian S. Bauer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-239) and indexes
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97049914
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Incas