Pre-Inca Art and Culture

Inca Culture at the Time

This section of the Handbook deals with the culture of the Andean region between Ecuador and the northern border of Aymara territory as it was observed by the Spanish conquerors in the 16th century and recorded in surviving documents. This area includes the whole of the desert Coast of Perti and the broken valleys of the Peruvian Highlands, a region which was the home of many different tribes, ...

Preconquest Peruvian neurosurgeons: a study of Inca and pre-Columbian trephination and the art of medicine in ancient Peru.

Trephination and craniotomy performed by abrasion, scraping, crosscut sawing, and drilling are the oldest known surgical techniques used by primitive peoples. As a result of archaeological findings, the human skull is the most frequently studied part of the excavated body, leading to the creation of a new aspect of anthropology known as "cultural osteology." Found in ancient tombs, the human re...

Insanity, Art and Culture

Insanity, Art and Culture

He sets out to examine the paintings of psychotics, to see if the symptoms shown are due to the illness alone or possibly to cultural background and secondly, whether the symptomatic significance is of universal or irrelevant character. In the course of the investigation various artistic mediums such as sculptoring, needlework and painting are studied. It is very necessary that in a concisely w...

Entertainment, Culture, and Media Art

This chapter is dedicated to explore the relationship between entertainment, culture, and media art. Firstly, the positioning of entertainment will be described including the historical point of view and also focusing on recent digital entertainment technologies. It will be clarified that entertainment is closely related to the mental sustainability of human and therefore has a close relationsh...