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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
- Description
- 189 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 28 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean
- Subject
- 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