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.
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