Jose R Oliver's Caciques and Cemi Idols: The Web Spun by Taino Rulers PDF

By Jose R Oliver

ISBN-10: 0817316361

ISBN-13: 9780817316365

ISBN-10: 0817355154

ISBN-13: 9780817355159

Cemís are either transportable artifacts and embodiments of people or spirit, which the Taínos and different natives of the larger Antilles (ca. advert 1000-1550) considered as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This quantity takes a detailed examine the connection among people and different (non-human) beings which are imbued with cemí energy, particularly in the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere encompassing Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. The relationships deal with the $64000 questions of identification and personhood of the cemí icons and their human “owners” and the results of cemí gift-giving and gift-taking that sustains a posh net of relationships among caciques (chiefs) of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.

Oliver presents a cautious research of the 4 significant types of cemís—three-pointed stones, huge stone heads, stone collars, and elbow stones—as good as face mask, which offer an enticing distinction to the stone heads. He reveals facts for his interpretation of human and cemí interactions from a serious assessment of 16th-century Spanish ethnohistoric records, specially the Relación Acerca de las Antigüedades de los Indios written through Friar Ramón Pané in 1497–1498 less than orders from Christopher Columbus. Buttressed via examples of local resistance and syncretism, the amount discusses the iconoclastic conflicts and the connection among the icons and the humans. targeting this and at the a variety of contexts during which the relationships have been enacted, Oliver finds how the cemís have been principal to the workout of local political energy. Such cemís have been thought of a right away possibility to the hegemony of the Spanish conquerors, as those effective gadgets have been obvious as allies within the local resistance to the onslaught of Christendom with its icons of saints and virgins.

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