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Carved in Ebony Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us


Free Download Karen Ellis, "Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 076423885X, 0764239708 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 3.9 mb
Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Maria Fearing, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Sara Griffith Stanley, Amanda Berry Smith, Lucy Craft Laney, Maria Stewart, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops


Free Download Jessica Joyce Christie, "Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops"
English | ISBN: 0739194887 | 2015 | 316 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops: From Past to Present presents a comprehensive analysis of the carved rocks the Inka created in the Andean highlands during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It provides an overview of Inka history, a detailed analysis of the techniques and styles of carving, and five comprehensive case studies. It opens in the Inka capital, Cusco, one of the two locations where the geometric style of Inka carving was authored by the ninth ruler Pachakuti Inka Yupanki. The following chapters move to the origin places on the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca and at Pumaurqu, southwest of Cusco, where the Inka constructed the emergence of the first members of their dynasty from sacred rock outcrops. The final case studies focus upon the royal estates of Machu Picchu and Chinchero. Machu Picchu is the second site where Pachakuti appears to have authored the geometric style. Chinchero was built by his son, Thupa Inka Yupanki, who adopted his father’s strategy of rock carving and associated political messages.

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