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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009

1 online resource (xviii, 306 p.) : ill., maps

ISBN 0817381171 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780817381172 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0817316361 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 0817355154 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780817316365 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780817355159 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-279) and index

Introduction -- Believers of Cemiism : who were the Tainos 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 Cemi reveals its personhood and its body form -- Cemi idols and Tainoan idolatry -- Cemis and personal identities -- The power and potency of the Cemis -- The display of Cemis : personal vs. communal ownership, private vs. public function -- Face-to-face interactions : Cemis, idols, and the native political elite -- Hanging on to and losing the power of the Cemi idols -- The inheritance and reciprocal exchange of Cemi icons -- Cemis : alienable or inalienable; to give and to keep -- Stone collars, elbow stones, and caciques -- Ancestor Cemis and the Cemiification of the caciques -- The guaiza face masks : gifts of the living for the living -- The circulation of chief’s names, women, and Cemis : between the greater and lesser Antilles -- Up in arms : Taino freedom fighters in Higuey and Boriquen -- The virgin Mary icons and native Cemis : two cases of religious syncretism in Cuba -- Religious syncretism and transculturation : the crossroads toward new identities -- Final remarks.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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