Contested Caribbean Indigeneity - Language, Social Practice, Identity Within Puerto Rican Taino

This book is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists claiming what is commonly thought to be an extinct ethnic category.
 

List of contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Glossary

Transcription Conventions

Prologue

Introduction

Part I: Competing historical narratives regarding Taíno extinction 

1 The Stakes of Being Taíno     

2 Historical Discourses and Debates about Puerto Rico's Indigenous Trajectory                  

Part II: The Puerto Rican Nation and Ethnoracial Regimes in Puerto Rico

3 Jíbaros and Jibaridades, Ambiguities and Possibilities          

4 Impossible Identities  

Part III: Taíno Heritage and Political Mobilization

5 (Re)Constructing Heritage, Narratives of Linguistic Belonging

6 How Do You See the World as a Taíno? Conceptualizing the Taíno Gaze                           

7 Protest, Surveillance, and Ceremony           

Conclusion                 

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography  

Index

 

About the author

SHERINA FELICIANO-SANTOS is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

Product details

• Authors: Sherina Feliciano-Santos
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781978808188
• ISBN: 978-1-978808-18-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology