Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-769
Author(s):  
Mónica Salas Landa
Keyword(s):  
Lost City ◽  
Machu Picchu ◽  
City Science

A Lost City and its Time Machine: Vision and Affect in Rail Travel to Machu Picchu

2020 ◽  
pp. 120633122096541
Author(s):  
Amy Cox Hall
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Time Machine ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Lost City ◽  
Machu Picchu ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Rail Travel

Research on tourism to Machu Picchu rarely addresses the ways in which transportation, particularly rail travel, is integral to a visit to the UNESCO world heritage site. Yet the majority of visitors to Machu Picchu arrive by train, making rail travel a crucial component to the way in which the site is understood and experienced. This article examines rail travel to Machu Picchu through archival research and ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Cuzco and at Machu Picchu to argue that rail travel capitalizes on historic and cultural imaginings of Machu Picchu as a lost city, transforming the tourist into an explorer in the process. The experience relies on vision and affect as the train acts a temporalizing machine, taking the tourist back in time to visit another world, perpetuating the myth of lost cities, discovery and dispossession in the process.

Lost City of the Incas: The Story of Machu Picchu and Its Builders

1949 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 904
Author(s):  
Wendell C. Bennett ◽  
Hiram Bingham
Keyword(s):  
Lost City ◽  
Machu Picchu

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Fredrik Nyman ◽  
Roberta Zavoretti ◽  
Linda Rabben ◽  
David M. R. Orr
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Lost City ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
Machu Picchu ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The Look

Breast Cancer Meanings: Journeys across Asia. Cynthia Chou and Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen (eds), Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2018, ISBN: 978- 87-7694-242-7, 304 pp., Hb. £65 / Pb. £22.50.The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-Medicine. Eric Plemons, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-8223-6914-1, 208 pp., Pb $24.95 / Hb $94.95.Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers. David Scott FitzGerald, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, ISBN: 978-01-9087-415-5, 359 pp., Hb. $34.95.Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime. Nancy Hiemstra, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019, ISBN: 978-08-2035-463-7, 182 pp., Pb. $29.95.Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu. Amy Cox Hall, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-4773-1368-8, 267 pp., Pb. $29.95.Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru Mark Rice, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-4696-4353-3, 233 pp., Pb. $31.95.

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