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The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands /
A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico. Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as d...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Physical features of Porto Rico; Precolumbian population; Present descendants of the Porto Rican Indians; Race and kinship; Bodily characteristics; Mental and moral characteristics; Government; Political divisions; Houses; Thatched with grasses; Thatched with palm leaves; With palm leaves on walls, and straw-thatched roofs; With slabs of palm wood on walls; Secular customs; Naming children; marriage customs; Hunting and fishing; Agriculture; Religion; Zemiism; Zemis of wood; Zemis of stone; Zemis of cotton cloth inclosing bones; Zemis painted on their bodies and faces.