Jessica Joyce Christie: 2 books

Landscapes of Origin in the Americas

Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities

by Jessica Joyce Christie, Merideth Paxton, Polly Schaafsma
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points. In conventional...

Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops

by Jessica Joyce Christie
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015

Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops: From Past to Present presents a comprehensive analysis of the carved rocks the Inka created in the Andean highlands during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It provides an overview of Inka history, a detailed analysis of the techniques and...