Cummins, Thomas B.F.Hamilton, Andrew James2014-02-252014-02-252014Hamilton, Andrew James. 2014. Scale and the Incas. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11294http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11745704This dissertation studies the concept of scale in the worldview of the Inca civilization, and was precipitated by the countless "miniature" objects made throughout the Pre-Columbian Andean world. Often relegated to the background of scholarship, scaled objects are not well understood and have exerted little influence on the academic understandings of the Incas.en-USArt historyLatin American studiesArchaeologyIncasMiniaturesScaleThesis or Dissertation