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| ISBN | 1885254822 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9781885254825
(What's this?) | | Pages | 192 | | Publisher | Monacelli Press | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Monacelli Press | | Weight (grammes) | 1242 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | New York | | Publication date | 01 Feb 1998 | | Height (mm) | 280 | | Non-book description | 189 p. : | | Width (mm) | 235 | | Library of Congress | 97042053 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 709.729 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Preface and Acknowledgments by Susana Torruella Leval | | 6 | | | | Foreword by Jeffrey Quilter | | 10 | | | | The Caribbean before European Conquest: A Chronology by Samuel M. Wilson | | 15 | | | | An Introduction to Taino Culture and History by Ricardo E. Alegria | | 18 | | | | The Daily Life of the Taino People by Marcio Veloz Maggiolo | | 34 | | | | The Taino Social and Political Order by Samuel M. Wilson | | 46 | | | | To Be Seated with "Great Courtesy and Veneration": Contextual Aspects of the Taino Duho by Joanna M. Ostapkowicz | | 56 | | | | The Creation Myths of the Taino by Jose Juan Arrom | | 68 | | | | Taino Stone Collars, Elbow Stones, and Three-Pointers by Jeffery B. Walker | | 80 | | | | Zemi Three-Pointer Stones by Shirley McGinnis | | 92 | | | | Ancestor Worship and Cosmology among the Taino by Peter E. Siegel | | 106 | | | | The Bat and the Owl: Nocturnal Images of Death by Manuel A. Garcia Arevalo | | 112 | | | | Just Wasting Away: Taino Shamanism and Concepts of Fertility by Peter G. Roe | | 124 | | | | Epilogue: The Beaded Zemi in the Pigorini Museum by Dicey Taylor and Marco Biscione and Peter G. Roe | | 158 | | | | Appendices by Susan C. Griswold | | 170 | | | | Selected Bibliography | | 181 |
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