{"title":"Carolyn Dean","description":"Carolyn Dean is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.","products":[{"product_id":"inka-bodies-and-the-body-of-christ-corpus-christi-in-colonial-cuzco-peru-paperback","title":"Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eInka Bodies and the Body of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e Carolyn Dean investigates the multiple meanings of the Roman Catholic feast of Corpus Christi as it was performed in the Andean city of Cuzco after the Spanish conquest. By concentrating on the era's paintings and its historical archives, Dean explores how the festival celebrated the victory of the Christian God over sin and death, the triumph of Christian orthodoxy over the imperial Inka patron (the Sun), and Spain's conquest of Peruvian society.\u003cbr\u003eAs Dean clearly illustrates, the central rite of the festival-the taking of the Eucharist-symbolized both the acceptance of Christ and the power of the colonizers over the colonized. The most remarkable of Andean celebrants were those who appeared costumed as the vanquished Inka kings of Peru's pagan past. Despite the subjugation of the indigenous population, Dean shows how these and other Andean nobles used the occasion of Corpus Christi as an opportunity to construct new identities through \u003ci\u003etinkuy\u003c\/i\u003e, a native term used to describe the conjoining of opposites. By mediating the chasms between the Andean region and Europe, pagans and Christians, and the past and the present, these Andean elites negotiated a new sense of themselves. Dean moves beyond the colonial period to examine how these hybrid forms of Inka identity are still evident in the festive life of modern Cuzco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInka Bodies and the Body of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first in-depth analysis of the culture and paintings of colonial Cuzco. This volume will be welcomed by historians of Peruvian culture, art, and politics. It will also interest those engaged in performance studies, religion, and postcolonial and Latin American studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA provocative and nuanced interdisciplinary study. Dean effectively moves beyond mere historical reconstruction to explore the religious festival of Corpus Christi as an aesthetic, expressive, and sociopolitical event not only within colonial Cuzco life but within the broader context of the colonial enterprise in the Americas.--Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50123268227295,"sku":"9780822323679","price":64.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gtncmu6uve9780822323679.webp?v=1781693865"},{"product_id":"a-culture-of-stone-inka-perspectives-on-rock-paperback","title":"A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, \u003ci\u003eA Culture of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a vital role in the unfolding of Inka history. Examining the multiple uses of stone, she argues that the Inka understood building in stone as a way of ordering the chaos of unordered nature, converting untamed spaces into domesticated places, and laying claim to new territories. Dean contends that understanding what the rocks signified requires seeing them as the Inka saw them: as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred. Through careful analysis of Inka stonework, colonial-period accounts of the Inka, and contemporary ethnographic and folkloric studies of indigenous Andean culture, Dean reconstructs the relationships between stonework and other aspects of Inka life, including imperial expansion, worship, and agriculture. She also scrutinizes meanings imposed on Inka stone by the colonial Spanish and, later, by tourism and the tourist industry. \u003ci\u003eA Culture of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling multidisciplinary argument for rethinking how we see and comprehend the Inka past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy addressing both well-known and understudied objects, Carolyn Dean offers sophisticated new insights into Inka practices. Moreover, while advancing scholarship on the colonial Andes, she tackles issues relating to the interpretation of non-Western art and its reception, contributing to debates on material objects and the built environment in a wide range of fields.--Dana Leibsohn, Smith College\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50123268292831,"sku":"9780822348078","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UuSNh-3Vs69780822348078.webp?v=1781693865"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/carolyn-dean.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}