Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables 000
Preface 000
Part I. Introduction and Theoretical Premises
Chapter 1. Introduction 000
Chapter 2. Believers of Cemiism: Who Were the Tainos and Where Did They
Come From? 000
Chapter 3. Webs of Interaction: Human Beings, Other Beings, and Many
Things 000
Chapter 4. Personhood and the Animistic Amerindian Perspective 000
Chapter 5. Contrasting Animistic and Naturalistic Worldviews 000
Part II. The Form, Personhood, Identity, and Potency of Cemi Idols
Chapter 6. The Cemi Reveals Its Personhood and Its Body Form 000
Chapter 7. Cemi Idols and Tainoan Idolatry 000
Chapter 8. Cemis and Personal Identities 000
Part III. The Social Relations and Circulation of Cemi Idols and Human
Beings
Chapter 9. The Power and Potency of the Cemis 000
Chapter 10. The Display of Cemis: Personal vs. Communal Ownership,
Private vs. Public Function 000
Chapter 11. Face-to-Face Interactions: Cemis, Idols, and the Native
Political Elite 000
Chapter 12. Hanging On to and Losing the Power of the Cemi Idols 000
Chapter 13. The Inheritance and Reciprocal Exchange of Cemi Icons 000
Chapter 14. Cemis: Alienable or Inalienable; To Give and To Keep 000
Part IV. Stone Collars, Elbow Stones, Three-Pointers, Stone Heads, and
Guaizas
Chapter 15. Stone Collars, Elbow Stones, and Caciques 000
Chapter 16. Ancestor Cemis and the Cemiification of the Caciques 000
Chapter 17. The Guaiza Face Masks: Gifts of the Living for the Living
000
Chapter 18. The Circulation of Chief's Names, Women, and Cemis: Between
the Greater and Lesser Antilles 000
Part V. The Battles for the Cemis in Hispaniola, Boriquen, and Cuba
Chapter 19. Up in Arms: Taino Freedom Fighters in Higuey and Boriquen
000
Chapter 20. The Virgin Mary Icons and Native Cemis: Two Cases of
Religious Syncretism in Cuba 000
Chapter 21. Religious Syncretism and Transculturation: The Crossroads
to New Identities 000
Part VI. Conclusions
Chapter 22. Final Remarks 000
References Cited 000
Photo Credits and Copyrights 000
