The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and neighboring islands [[electronic resource] /] / Jesse Walter Fewkes

• Autore: Fewkes Jesse Walter <1850-1930.>
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.95/0049839
• Soggetto topico: Indians of the West Indies - Puerto Rico
• Note generali: Originally published in 1907 as one of two papers accompanying the 25th annual report of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; Physical features of Porto Rico; Precolumbian population; Present descendants of the Porto Rican Indians; Race and kinship; Bodily characteristics; Mental and moral characteristics; Government; Political divisions; Houses; Thatched with grasses; Thatched with palm leaves; With palm leaves on walls, and straw-thatched roofs; With slabs of palm wood on walls; Secular customs; Naming children; marriage customs; Hunting and fishing; Agriculture; Religion; Zemiism; Zemis of wood; Zemis of stone; Zemis of cotton cloth inclosing bones; Zemis painted on their bodies and faces ; PriesthoodDivination; Medicine practices; Narcotics; Rites and ceremonies; Ceremony to bring crops; Survival of ceremony in modern dances; Burial ceremonies; Myths; Traditions of origin; A modern legend; The name Borinquen; Archeological sites; Dance plazas; Shell heaps; Caves; Archeological objects; Celts; Enigmatical stones; Pestles; Mortars; Beads and pendants; Stone balls; Three-pointed stones; Type with head on anterior and legs on posterior projection; Type with face between anterior and conoid projection; Type with conoid projection modified into a head; Smooth stones; Interpretation ; Semicircular stonesStone heads; Disks with human faces; Stone amulets; Pictographs; River pictographs; Cave pictographs; Stone collars; Massive collars; Slender collars; Theories of the use of stone collars; Elbow stones; Knobbed heads; Pillar stones; Large stone idols; Pottery; Shell and bone carvings; Wooden objects; Cassava graters; Dance object; Swallowing-sticks; Ceremonial baton; Idols; Stools; Canoes; Other objects; Gold objects; Basketry and textiles; Conclusions
• Sommario/riassunto: A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico. Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as doing ""more than any other to give a comprehensive idea of the archaeology of the West Indies."" Until that time, for mainly political reasons, little scientific research had been conducted by Americans on any of the Caribbean islands. Dr. Fewkes' unique skills o
• Titolo autorizzato: The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and neighboring islands
• ISBN: 0-8173-8249-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791972203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory