Biographies of place -- Place-making and politics -- The Lake Titicaca Basin, past and present -- The site of Khonkho Wankane -- Making ritual places : caravan routes and the founding of Khonkho Wankane -- Experiencing ritual places : stelae, sunken courts, and the creation of an axis mundi -- The power of ritual places : politics and social difference through time -- The political cartography of an axis settlement -- Appendix
Summary
This book is a study of the ways places are created and how they attain meaning
