Caciques and Cem�i idols the web spun by Ta�ino rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico /

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Main Author: Oliver, Jose R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.
Series:Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-279) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Believers of Cem�iism : who were the Ta�inos and where did they come from? -- Webs of interaction : human beings, other beings, and many things -- Personhood and the animistic Amerindian perspective -- Contrasting animistic and naturalistic worldviews -- The Cem�i reveals its personhood and its body form -- Cem�i idols and Ta�inoan idolatry -- Cem�is and personal identities -- The power and potency of the Cem�is -- The display of Cem�is : personal vs. communal ownership, private vs. public function -- Face-to-face interactions : Cem�is, idols, and the native political elite -- Hanging on to and losing the power of the Cem�i idols -- The inheritance and reciprocal exchange of Cem�i icons -- Cem�is : alienable or inalienable; to give and to keep -- Stone collars, elbow stones, and caciques -- Ancestor Cem�is and the Cem�iification of the caciques -- The gua�iza face masks : gifts of the living for the living -- The circulation of chief's names, women, and Cem�is : between the greater and lesser Antilles -- Up in arms : Ta�ino freedom fighters in Hig�uey and Boriqu�en -- The virgin Mary icons and native Cem�is : two cases of religious syncretism in Cuba -- Religious syncretism and transculturation : the crossroads toward new identities -- Final remarks. 
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650 0 |a Taino Indians  |x Implements. 
650 0 |a Taino Indians  |x Colonization. 
650 0 |a Indians of the West Indies  |x First contact with Europeans  |z Hispaniola. 
650 0 |a Stone implements  |z Hispaniola  |x History. 
650 0 |a Icons  |z Hispaniola  |x History. 
650 0 |a Christianity and culture  |z Hispaniola. 
650 0 |a Christianity and other religions  |z Hispaniola. 
650 0 |a Syncretism (Religion)  |z Hispaniola. 
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651 0 |a Spain  |x Colonies  |z America. 
651 0 |a Hispaniola  |x Colonization. 
651 0 |a Hispaniola  |x Antiquities. 
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