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Antillean Islander Space: On the Religious Beliefs and Representations of the Taíno People
Author(s) -
Rodríguez López Ivan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of religious history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9809
pISSN - 0022-4227
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9809.12329
Subject(s) - perspectivism , transculturation , animism , mythology , context (archaeology) , anthropology , indigenous , fifteenth , history , space (punctuation) , ethnography , interpretation (philosophy) , paganism , archaeology , sociology , christianity , classics , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , ecology , biology
This study aims to shed light on Taíno polytheism and its imprint in the Antillean geographic space and the unitary and differentiated development of its religious beliefs and representations, by means of mythic substitution and iconographic hybridisation, as a result of the multinatural perspectivism (animism) shared with its South American relatives and indigenous transculturation processes. It will also show the implications of a revised interpretation of the archaeological heritage based on a comparative approach using the available Caribbean ethnohistoric records (dated from the fifteenth century, mostly, like the mythological passages recorded by friar Ramón Pané) and contemporary lowland Amerindian ethnography along with the iconographic analysis of Taíno imagery in context, an area in which the pioneer linguist José Juan Arrom made the first advances, but his work now demands review.