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Caciques and Cemí Idols: The Web Spun by Taino Rulers by Jose R Oliver

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By Jose R Oliver

Cemís are either moveable artifacts and embodiments of people or spirit, which the Taínos and different natives of the higher Antilles (ca. advert 1000-1550) considered as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This quantity takes an in depth examine the connection among people and different (non-human) beings which are imbued with cemí energy, in particular 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 fancy internet of relationships among caciques (chiefs) of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.
 
Oliver offers a cautious research of the 4 significant different types of cemís—three-pointed stones, huge stone heads, stone collars, and elbow stones—as good as face mask, which supply an enticing distinction to the stone heads. He unearths proof for his interpretation of human and cemí interactions from a severe overview of 16th-century Spanish ethnohistoric files, specifically the Relación Acerca de las Antigüedades de los Indios written by means of 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 people. concentrating on this and at the numerous contexts within which the relationships have been enacted, Oliver finds how the cemís have been important to the workout of local political strength. Such cemís have been thought of an instantaneous chance to the hegemony of the Spanish conquerors, as those powerful gadgets have been visible as allies within the local resistance to the onslaught of Christendom with its icons of saints and virgins.
 

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D. 400) sites throughout the Lesser Antilles, not just Puerto Rico. , Hope Estate-1 in St. Martin, Morel-1 in Guadeloupe [see Hofman and Hoogland 1999]), which Rouse grudgingly and incorrectly grouped in a Huecan Saladoid subseries, have yet to yield three-pointed artifacts. Again this points to significant differences in how the Huecoid and Cedrosan Saladoid interacted with the Archaic groups. The La Hueca–related artisans adopted Archaic protocols of lithic reduction, whereas the Cedrosan Saladoid adopted an artifact that would become one of the most ubiquitous religious icons of the Greater Antilles.

The differences in lithic technology between the Saladoid and Huecoid point to significant differences in how these populations interacted with the contemporaneous Archaic populations. The La Hueca culture, first found on Vieques Island, presented a serious problem to the cultural-chronological edifice erected by Rouse (Chanlatte Baik and Narganes Storde 1984; see Oliver 1999 for a detailed appraisal). In essence, Rouse interpreted La Hueca and other related complexes (mainly Punta Candelero on Puerto Rico, Hope Estate-1 in St.

The issue of how much Taínoness is needed to be identified as being and becoming Taínoan (as a material object or as a person, social group, and further up the scale) is a matter of identity formation and social relations and of what is available in the reservoir of ideas, materials, and practices that can be co-opted for various ends that are, of course, historically contingent. Philip Leis (2002) and others (Anderson and Peek 2002) have dealt with precisely the same issues when examining the plurality of peoples and ethnicities of the Niger Delta in western Africa, especially in relation to art and iconography.

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