Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles

• প্রধান লেখক: James Knight, Vernon (auth)
• বিন্যাস: বৈদ্যুতিক গ্রন্থের অধ্যায়
• ভাষা: ইংরেজি
• প্রকাশিত: Leiden Sidestone Press 2020
• মালা: Taboui 7
• বিষয়গুলি: Archaeology; Caribbean islands; Caribbean archaeology; Greater Antilles; Bahamas; style; iconography; art; religion; figure pendants; spirit beings
• অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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 perf...