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Caciques and Cemí idols：the web spun by Taíno rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oliver José R.
Published: University of Alabama Press,
Publisher Address: Tuscaloosa
Publication Dates: c2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
Subjects:
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.
Syncretism (Religion) > Hispaniola.
Kultgegenstand.
Taino Indians > Religion.
Hispaniola > Antiquities.
Spain > Colonies > America.
Taino.
Hispaniola > Colonization.
Carrier Form: xviii, 306 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780817316365 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817316361 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817355159 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0817355154 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780817381172 (electronic)
0817381171 (electronic)
Index Number: B929
CLC: B929.73
K730.3
Call Number: B929.73/O486
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-279) and index.
Introduction -- Believers of Cemíism : who were the Taínos 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 Cemí reveals its personhood and its body form -- Cemí idols and Taínoan idolatry -- Cemís and personal identities -- The power and potency of the Cemís -- The display of Cemís : personal vs. communal ownership, private vs. public function -- Face-to-face interactions : Cemís, idols, and the native political elite -- Hanging on to and losing the power of the Cemí idols -- The inheritance and reciprocal exchange of Cemí icons -- Cemís : alienable or inalienable; to give and to keep -- Stone collars, elbow stones, and caciques -- Ancestor Cemís and the Cemíification of the caciques -- The guaíza face masks : gifts of the living for the living -- The circulation of chief's names, women, and Cemís : between the greater and lesser Antilles -- Up in arms : Taíno freedom fighters in Higüey and Boriquén -- The virgin Mary icons and native Cemís : two cases of religious syncretism in Cuba -- Religious syncretism and transculturation : the crossroads toward new identities -- Final remarks.

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