{"product_id":"inka-bird-idiom-claudia-brosseder-9780822947592","title":"Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in the Andes","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow Indigenous People Used Feathers as a Significant Way of Symbolic Communication in the Andes \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the diverse fowl of the Amazon, the eastern Andean foothills, and the highlands. She shows how birds and feathers shaped Inka politics, launched wars, and initiated peace. Feathers provided protection against unpredictable enemies, made possible communication with deities, and brought an imagined Inka past into a political present. Richly textured contexts of feathered objects recovered from Late Horizon archaeological records and from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts written by Spanish interlocutors enable new insights into Inka visions of interspecies relationships, an Inka ontology, and Inka views of the place of the human in their ecology. \u003ci\u003eInka Bird Idiom\u003c\/i\u003e invites reconsideration of the deep intellectual ties that connected the Amazon and the mountain forests with the Andean highlands and the Pacific coast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudia Brosseder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822947595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822947592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs","brand":"Claudia Brosseder","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44829494837503,"sku":"9780822947592","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fcd9800a-68e2-4c04-b3cb-aea2e0be3a0f.jpg?v=1708450959","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inka-bird-idiom-claudia-brosseder-9780822947592","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}