Códigos del tiempo – Espacios rituales en el mundo andino

Tom Zuiderma

This book is a complete anthropological study on the control of time and sacred spaces in prehispanic Peru; a tool we can use to put aside our western way of thinking for a while and unveil our own mysteries without prejudices. It summarizes fifty years of research by its renowned author, and includes arguments and pictures that prove the validity of certain ways of thinking that are different from our own.

Additional information:
Author: Tom Zuiderma
Year of publication: 2015
Language: Spanish
Sponsor: La Positiva
Photography/Illustration: Daniel Giannoni, Joaquín Rubio, Mylene D’Auriol, Salvattore Carlotto
Pages: 292
Size: 32.5 × 24 cm
Legal deposit: 2015-17466
ISBN: 978-612-47093-0-2
Copyright: Apus Graph Ediciones

Presentation

Prologue

Introduction

Part 1: The Ceque System and Calendar Knowledge in Cuzco

The ceques system of Cuzco: a yearly calendar-almanac in space and time
The number of ceques and huacas
Introduction to the sociopolitical order of Cuzco
The panacas in charge of months
The three “months” without a panaca
The registry of astronomical observations in Cuzco
The calendar and the Pleiades
The system of solar observations
The cult of only four months in a year
Conclusions

Part 2: The Chuquibamba Textiles and Their Interacting Notation Systems

The case of multiple precise calendars
The use of notation in the Chuquibamba calendars
A man’s tunic with a solar calendar
A woman’s cloak with a sidereal lunar calendar
Additional textiles related to numbers forty-one, forty, and forty-two
The Ohara cloak with modules of three different calendars
The Kosok cloak: a standardized sidereal calendar for the solar year
The contexts of archaeology, ethnohistory, and history of art

Part 3: The Andean Knowledge of Calendars in Regal Tunics (Tarco huallca)

The Andean knowledge of calendars: the tunics as almanacs
Three precise calendars on textiles
The three tunics-almanacs
Tarco huallca and the colonial Inca tunic
The Huari tunic at the Dumbarton Oaks Museum
First Argument
Second Argument
The other three Huari tunics
The Tiahuanaco tunic of the “Portada”
Tunics, almanacs, and the ceques system: conclusions

Part 4: Tiahuanaco Iconography and the Calendar

The prehispanic calendars
The “Portada del Sol” (“Door of the Sun”)
The Bennett monolith
Conclusions

Part 5: “Making Calendars” in Quipus and Textiles

The numbers and their role in the simultaneous registry of the sociopolitical order and the Andean calendar in Cuzco, Chuquibamba, and Collaguas
Four calendars on textiles from Chuquibamba and their interconnections:
First calendar: Uncu
Second calendar: female cloak with a sidereal lunar calendar
Third calendar: female cloak with sidereal calendar
Fourth calendar: cloak with modules of solar, synodic lunar, and sidereal calendars
Final commentaries about the four calendars of Chuquibamba

Part 6: Calendrical and Political Organization in Collaguas and Cuzco

Comparison between the ceque system of Cuzco and the organization of the Inca province of Collaguas
Theoretical problems of the organization of the Collaguas province
The ceque calendar as derived from the solar, sidereal, and lunar calendars
The ceque calendar
Hypothetical development of the Inca calendar from the solar, lunar, and synodic lunar cycles

Part 7: The Ushnus of Cuzco and Sacred Centers

The ushnus (plazas) of Cuzco and the sacred centers in the Andean ethnography, ethnohistory, and archaeology
General references about the Ushnu, in the colonial literature and during our time
The Ushnu of Urcos (Cajatambo) according to Hernández Príncipe
An introduction to the two public Ushnus of Cuzco
The sunrises at the zenith, the sunsets at the anti-zenith, and the Inca calendar of agriculture
The Ushnu of the Hanan Haucaypata and the additional characteristics of the square
The Ushnu of the Hurin Haucaypata
The Ushnu and the Suntur Huasi at the foot of the Sahuasiray Pitusiray mountain
Towards the comparison and in the wise of a conclusion

Epilogue

Bibliography

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