LEADER 00000cam a2200637Ii 4500 001 on1154411214 003 OCoLC 005 20210702122947.4 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 200515s2020 ne ob 000 0 eng d 020 9789088908729|q(electronic book) 020 9088908729|q(electronic book) 020 |z9789088908705 020 |z9088908702 020 |z9789088908712 020 |z9088908710 035 (OCoLC)1154411214 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dN$T|dOCLCF|dMZA 043 cc----- 049 RIDW 050 4 F2172 082 04 972.9|223 090 F2172 100 1 Knight, Vernon J.,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n81112990|eauthor. 245 10 Caribbean figure pendants :|bstyle and subject matter : anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles /|cVernon James Knight. 264 1 Leiden :|bSidestone Press|c[2020] 300 1 online resource (240 pages). 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 Taboui ;|vno. 7 504 Includes bibliographical references. 520 8 This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called "amulets", from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small carvings of spirit beings perforated for suspension against the body. The data are drawn from new photographs, measurements, and observations of 535 specimens compiled by the author during 2011-2018 in research visits to 34 museums and private collections in the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe. In analyzing this corpus, the author documents high stylistic diversity within the region, naming nine new figure pendant styles and situating these in space and time. This high diversity of local styles and subject matter suggests a previously undocumented religious pluralism in the ancient Caribbean, in accord with emergent understandings of cultural and political diversity within the region. The author finds that the subject matter of figure pendants is unconnected with elite cohoba spiritualism as documented ethnohistorically, which leads to a search for what the phenomenon represents socially and religiously. Figure pendants generally are far more common than the paraphernalia of cohoba, probably documenting the existence of a religious institution existing at the village level. The author hypothesizes that they were commissioned from pendant carvers by initiates of secret societies dedicated to healing or warfare. In this scenario, the supernatural subjects of the pendants were the patrons of regional sodalities with distinct histories. The book is intended for readers with interests in the indigenous art, religion and society of the ancient Caribbean and more broadly, Latin America. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Amulets|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85004685|zCaribbean Area.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85020279-781 650 0 Figure sculpture|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh86006867|zCaribbean Area.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85020279-781 650 7 Amulets.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/808063 650 7 Antiquities.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/810745 650 7 Figure sculpture.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 924084 651 0 Caribbean Area|xAntiquities.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2004014529 651 7 Caribbean Area.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1244080 655 0 Electronic books. 655 4 Electronic books. 776 08 |iPrint version:|aKnight, Vernon James.|tCaribbean figure pendants: Style and subject matter. Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles. |dLeiden : Sidestone Press 2020|z9789088908705 |w(OCoLC)1138930991 830 0 Taboui ;|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ no2020044406|vno. 7. 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=2471780|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this ebook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20210708|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksacademic NEW 5016 |lridw 994 92|bRID