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Taíno : pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean / edited by Fatima Bercht ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Ricardo E. Alegría ... [et al.].

Title
Taíno : pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean / edited by Fatima Bercht ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Ricardo E. Alegría ... [et al.].
Publication
New York : El Museo del Barrio : Monacelli Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Bercht, Fatima
  • Museo del Barrio.
Description
189 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 28 cm.
Alternative Title
Pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean
Subject
  • Taino Indians > Exhibitions
  • Taino Indians > Antiquities > Exhibitions
  • Taino art > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, Sept. 25, 1997-Mar. 29, 1998.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189).
Language (note)
  • English; appendices translated from Spanish and Latin.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Preface and acknowledgments / Susana Torruella Leval -- Foreword / Jeffrey Quilter -- The Caribbean before European conquest : a chronology / Samuel M. Wilson -- An introduction to Taíno culture and history / Ricardo E. Alegría -- The daily life of the Taíno people / Marcio Veloz Maggiolo -- The Taíno social and political order / Samuel M. Wilson -- To be seated with 'great courtesy and veneration': contextual aspects of the Taíno duho / Joanna M. Ostapkowicz -- The creation myths of the Taíno / José Juan Arrom -- Taíno stone collars, elbow stones, and three-pointers / Jeffery B. Walker -- Zemi three-pointer stones / Shirley McGinnis.
  • Ancestor worship and cosmology among the Taíno / Peter E. Siegel -- The bat and the owl : nocturnal images of death / Manuel A. García Arévalo -- Just wasting away : Taíno shamanism and concepts of fertility / Peter G. Roe -- Epilogue : the beaded zemi in the Pigorini Museum / Dicey Taylor, Marco Biscione, and Peter G. Roe -- Appendices / Translated by Susan G. Griswold. 1. Diario del primer viaje and others / Christopher Columbus. 2. De Orbe Novo Decades / Pietro Martire d'Anghiera. 3. Apologética historia de las Indias / Fray Bartolomé de las Casas.
ISBN
1885254822 (Monacelli Press)
LCCN
^^^97042053^
OCLC
  • 37725626
  • SCSB-10947247
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library