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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). 
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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. 
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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. 
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       db=nlebk&AN=2471780|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access 
       restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, 
       and staff. 
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