Search Results - "Virginals

Mary, mother and warrior the Virgin in Spain and the Americas / by Hall, Linda B. (Linda Biesele), 1939-

Subjects: “…Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Devotion to Latin America History.…”
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Mary, mother and warrior the Virgin in Spain and the Americas / by Hall, Linda B. (Linda Biesele), 1939-

Subjects: “…Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Devotion to Latin America History.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Moroccan immigrant women in Spain : honor and marriage / by Pham, T. Thao

Table of Contents: “…The politics of space and place -- Gender and migratory honor -- Traditional marriages and honor -- Transnational endogamy -- Virgins and virtues -- Dishonor and its discontents -- Divorce and singlehood -- Veiling and embodied honor.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Moroccan immigrant women in Spain : honor and marriage / by Pham, T. Thao

Table of Contents: “…The politics of space and place -- Gender and migratory honor -- Traditional marriages and honor -- Transnational endogamy -- Virgins and virtues -- Dishonor and its discontents -- Divorce and singlehood -- Veiling and embodied honor.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Caciques and Cemí idols the web spun by Taíno rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico / by Oliver, José R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Webs of interaction : human beings, other beings, and many things -- Personhood and the animistic Amerindian perspective -- Contrasting animistic and naturalistic worldviews -- The Cemí reveals its personhood and its body form -- Cemí idols and Taínoan idolatry -- Cemís and personal identities -- The power and potency of the Cemís -- The display of Cemís : personal vs. communal ownership, private vs. public function -- Face-to-face interactions : Cemís, idols, and the native political elite -- Hanging on to and losing the power of the Cemí idols -- The inheritance and reciprocal exchange of Cemí icons -- Cemís : alienable or inalienable; to give and to keep -- Stone collars, elbow stones, and caciques -- Ancestor Cemís and the Cemíification of the caciques -- The guaíza face masks : gifts of the living for the living -- The circulation of chief's names, women, and Cemís : between the greater and lesser Antilles -- Up in arms : Taíno freedom fighters in Higüey and Boriquén -- The virgin Mary icons and native Cemís : two cases of religious syncretism in Cuba -- Religious syncretism and transculturation : the crossroads toward new identities -- Final remarks.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Caciques and Cemí idols the web spun by Taíno rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico / by Oliver, José R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Webs of interaction : human beings, other beings, and many things -- Personhood and the animistic Amerindian perspective -- Contrasting animistic and naturalistic worldviews -- The Cemí reveals its personhood and its body form -- Cemí idols and Taínoan idolatry -- Cemís and personal identities -- The power and potency of the Cemís -- The display of Cemís : personal vs. communal ownership, private vs. public function -- Face-to-face interactions : Cemís, idols, and the native political elite -- Hanging on to and losing the power of the Cemí idols -- The inheritance and reciprocal exchange of Cemí icons -- Cemís : alienable or inalienable; to give and to keep -- Stone collars, elbow stones, and caciques -- Ancestor Cemís and the Cemíification of the caciques -- The guaíza face masks : gifts of the living for the living -- The circulation of chief's names, women, and Cemís : between the greater and lesser Antilles -- Up in arms : Taíno freedom fighters in Higüey and Boriquén -- The virgin Mary icons and native Cemís : two cases of religious syncretism in Cuba -- Religious syncretism and transculturation : the crossroads toward new identities -- Final remarks.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view