Inka Bird Idiom - Claudia Brosseder

How Indigenous People Used Feathers as a Significant Way of Symbolic Communication in the Andes  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... Zobrazit více