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Article: The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: the Cusco Ceque System.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Cultural Geography
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- March 22, 2002
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By Brian S. Bauer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. List of Illustrations and tables, preface, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index, xiv+249 pp. $50.00 hardcover.
When the Spanish arrived in the Inca city of Cusco in 1532 one of the first things that they noted was the apparent symbolic and ritualized nature of the landscape. The residents of the city and surrounding countryside not only inhabited a sacred urban center and valley, but they had demarcated the four quarters of their empire that radiated from the cusco or umbilicus of the body politic by a series of lines (ceques) along which were found a sequence of shrines (huacas). Each place, like ...