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

Cemís are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Taínos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This volume takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-huma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oliver, José R.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.
Series:Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
Subjects:
Taino Indians > Religion.
Taino Indians > Implements.
Taino Indians > Colonization.
Indians of the West Indies > First contact with Europeans > Hispaniola.
Stone implements > History. > Hispaniola
Icons > History. > Hispaniola
Christianity and culture > Hispaniola.
Christianity and other religions > Hispaniola.
Syncretism (Religion) > Hispaniola.
Taino Indians.
HISTORY > General.
Spain > Colonies > America.
Hispaniola > Colonization.
Hispaniola > Antiquities.
Electronic books.
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