Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Quero Vessels

Thomas B. F. Cummins

ISBN 10: 0472110519 / ISBN 13: 9780472110513

Published by University of Michigan Press, 2002

Good++ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Foxing to the top textblock edge, otherwise unblemished textblock edges; Very light pencil notations to about 30 pages, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 2.0 lbs; Black and red dust jacket with title in red lettering; 2002, University of Michigan Press; 472 pages; "Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Quero Vessels," by Thomas B. F. Cummins. Seller Inventory # SKU-1204AP02502164

Synopsis:

Original both in its subject matter and in its methodology, Toasts with the Inca examines the Inca through their use of early colonial wooden drinking cups called keros. While these have survived in substantial numbers, they have received little scholarly attention until now. In this fascinating study of the keros's imagery, Thomas Cummins has reconstructed an entire world of ritual and religious and political relationships that previously have been understood only in fragments.

While most contemporary records speak from the Spanish point of view, these cups give a valuable and rare voice to the Andean people.

"Cummins has exquisite control over the primary sources on the Inca, and a masterful understanding of colonial society. This will be a book that nonspecialists can read as their first encounter with things South American, but it is written with a level of precision that will be appreciated by specialists." --Bruce Mannheim, University of Michigan

"The book's impact will be truly significant because it describes not only a visual world but also a world of human relations among Andean people." --Sabine MacCormack

Thomas B. F. Cummins is Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Chicago.

Original both in its subject matter and in its methodology, Toasts with the Inca examines the Inca through their use of early colonial wooden drinking cups called keros. While these have survived in substantial numbers, they have received little scholarly attention until now. In this fascinating study of the keros's imagery, Thomas Cummins has reconstructed an entire world of ritual and religious and political relationships that previously have been understood only in fragments.

While most contemporary records speak from the Spanish point of view, these cups give a valuable and rare voice to the Andean people.

"Cummins has exquisite control over the primary sources on the Inca, and a masterful understanding of colonial society. This will be a book that nonspecialists can read as their first encounter with things South American, but it is written with a level of precision that will be appreciated by specialists." --Bruce Mannheim, University of Michigan

"The book's impact will be truly significant because it describes not only a visual world but also a world of human relations among Andean people." --Sabine MacCormack

Thomas B. F. Cummins is Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Chicago.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and...
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good