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

• Main Author: James Knight, Vernon (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2020
• Series: Taboui 7
• Subjects: Archaeology; Caribbean islands; Caribbean archaeology; Greater Antilles; Bahamas; style; iconography; art; religion; figure pendants; spirit beings
• Online Access: 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...