Taíno : pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean / edited by Fatima Bercht [and others] ; with contributions by Ricardo E. Alegría [and others].
Material type: TextPublisher: New York ; El Museo del Barrio : Monacelli Press, 1997Description: 189 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1885254822
- 9781885254825
- 704.03979
- F1619.2.T3 T37 1997
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 704.03979 TAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A156310B |
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704.039700904 NAT Native American art in the twentieth century / | 704.03970795 JON Art of the Northwest coast / | 704.0397452 JIM Aztecs : conquest and glory / | 704.03979 TAI Taíno : pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean / | 704.039915 ABO Aboriginal art and spirituality / | 704.039915 ABO Aboriginal art at the top : a regional exhibition / | 704.039915 ABO Aboriginal voices : contemporary aboriginal artists, writers, and performers / |
Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, Sept. 25, 1997-Mar. 29, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189).
Preface and Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- The Caribbean before European Conquest: A Chronology -- An Introduction to Taino Culture and History -- The Daily Life of the Taino People -- The Taino Social and Political Order -- To Be Seated with "Great Courtesy and Veneration": Contextual Aspects of the Taino Duho -- The Creation Myths of the Taino -- Taino Stone Collars, Elbow Stones, and Three-Pointers -- Zemi Three-Pointer Stones -- Ancestor Worship and Cosmology among the Taino -- The Bat and the Owl: Nocturnal Images of Death -- Just Wasting Away: Taino Shamanism and Concepts of Fertility -- Epilogue: The Beaded Zemi in the Pigorini Museum -- Appendices -- Selected Bibliography.
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