Caught Looking
Under the Gaze of Inca Atawallpa, 15 November 1532
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12448451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Herring (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 373-405 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1082-9636 • E-ISSN: 1527-8263 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10829636-2647337 |
| OpenAlex | W2328441951 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article examines vision and cultural authority among the leadership of the Inca Empire of Andean South America. In Inca political society, seeing was cultural being. The essay addresses the spaces in which Inca acts of perception took place, as well as the architectural frameworks that defined the wider mise-en-scène of visual experience there. On 15 November 1532, the the Inca ruler Atawallpa received a group of about twenty Spanish soldiers at a residential complex outside Cajamarca, Perú. When he first saw the Inca king, one soldier recalled, the native ruler was seated “behind a sheet which completely covered him.” Raising a thin veil before the Europeans’ eyes, the Inca marked the sensory faculty of vision, giving it a cultural mode. The Inca ruler’s European antagonists were woven into the fabric of the Inca cultural order, caught looking
Aesthetics · Art · Gaze · Political science · Politics · Ruler · Visual arts · Latin American history and culture · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |