Caciques and Cemi idols
Subtitle: the web spun by Taino rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
By: Jose R. Oliver.
Series: Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780817316365; 9780817355159; 9780817381172
Subjects: Taino Indians -- Religion; Taino Indians -- Implements; Taino Indians -- Colonization; Indians of the West Indies -- First contact with Europeans -- Hispaniola; Stone implements -- Hispaniola -- History; Icons -- Hispaniola -- History; Christianity and culture -- Hispaniola; Christianity and other religions -- Hispaniola; Religious syncretism -- Hispaniola; Spain -- Colonies -- America; Hispaniola -- Colonization; Hispaniola -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Believers of Cemiism : who were the Tainos and where did they come from?; title: Webs of interaction : human beings, other beings, and many things; title: Personhood and the animistic Amerindian perspective; title: Contrasting animistic and naturalistic worldviews; title: The Cemi reveals its personhood and its body form; title: Cemi idols and tainoan idolatry; title: Cemis and personal identities; title: The power and potency of the Cemis; title: The display of Cemis : personal vs. communal ownership, private vs. public function; title: Face-to-face interactions : Cemis, idols, and the native political elite; title: Hanging on to and losing the power of the Cemi idols; title: The inheritance and reciprocal exchange of cemi icons; title: Cemis : alienable or inalienable; to give and to keep; title: Stone collars, elbow stones, and caciques; title: Ancestor Cemis and the Cemiification of the caciques; title: The guaiza face masks : gifts of the living for the living; title: The circulation of chief's names, women, and cemis : between the greater and lesser Antilles; title: Up in arms : Taino freedom fighters in Higuey and Boriquen; title: The virgin Mary icons and native Cemis : two cases of religious syncretism in Cuba; title: Religious syncretism and transculturation : the crossroads to new identities; title: Final remarks.