Warning Cookies are used on this site to provide the best user experience. If you continue, we assume that you agree to receive cookies from this site. OK

El centro ceremonial de Caguana, Puerto Rico

Simbolismo iconográfico, cosmovisión y el poderío caciquil Taíno de Boriquén

£63.00
Author:
José R. Oliver
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9780860549154
Paperback:
251pp. Includes 76 black and white photographs and drawings
ISBN 10:
0860549151
BAR number:
S727
+

Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
Using mutidisciplinary approach (archaeology, ethnohistory, linguistics, anthropology, and art history) Oliver explores the nature of Taino political-religious power using Caguana's ceremonial space and iconography as its primary context, and further looks into the implications of Caguana for understanding the development and functioning of chiefdom-level societies in Puerto Rico. As Prof. Zuidema (pp. i-ii) noted