Caciques and Cem�i idols the web spun by Ta�ino rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico /
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| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.