Toasts with the Inca Andean Abstraction and Coloni

by Thomas B.F. Cummins

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472110519
• ISBN13: 9780472110513
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.