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Paperback Caciques and Cemi Idols: The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico Book

ISBN: 0817355154

ISBN13: 9780817355159

Caciques and Cemi Idols: The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico

(Part of the Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series)

Takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cem power, specifically within the Ta no inter-island cultural sphere of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola

Cem s are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Ta nos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This volume takes...

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