Brian S. Bauer is an archaeologist specializing in Andean prehistory, and this University of Texas Press book is his academic reconstruction of the ceque system, the network of sacred lines and shrine sites, huacas, radiating from Cusco in Inca cosmology. Its strength is that Bauer tests the system against physical fieldwork and archaeological survey rather than accepting at face value the list of huacas recorded by the Spanish chronicler Bernabe Cobo, checking the colonial written record against what can actually be located and dated on the ground. That combination of archival and field method is what makes it the standard modern treatment of the ceque system rather than a restatement of Cobo. Its limit is that much of the physical evidence for individual shrines is fragmentary or lost to later development, so specific claims sometimes rest on inference rather than direct confirmation.
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Brian Bauer's University of Texas Press archaeological study of the Inca ceque system around Cusco, which tests the huaca list preserved by the Spanish chronicler Cobo against the physical and documentary record rather than accepting it as given. NotesArchaeological and field reconstruction of the ceque lines and the huacas along them around Cusco, tested against the list preserved by Cobo rather than accepting it as given.
Citation
AuthorBrian S. Bauer
PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
Publication Year1998
URLhttps://archive.org/details/sacredlandscapeo0000baue
Source Typeacademic monograph
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
Cusco, Cities This source names Cusco directly: "shrine sites, huacas, radiating from Cusco in Inca cosmology."
Inca, Cultures This source names Inca directly: "sites, huacas, radiating from Cusco in Inca cosmology."
Claims Backed By This Source (60 claims)
This source backs 60 claims across the atlas. As facts: 38 well-attested. As cited relationships: 9 holds. Plus 13 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Sites, 20 claims: 14 well-attested, 3 holds, 3 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Articles, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Deities, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Body Parts, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Cities, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Empires & Polities, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Historical Figures, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Cultures, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sacred Objects & Ritual Items, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Subcategories, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Bodies of Water, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Religions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Holds
9Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
General References
13Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
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