Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter. Anthropomorphic Figure Pendants of the Late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles. Afrique du Nord Jacqueline de Romilly analyzes the

Jacqueline de Romilly analyzes the relationship between enchantment through words

Nous sommes tous des migrants se dégage ainsi de l’emprise de l’actuel en inventant sa nécessité propre

A reference work bearing witness to a turning point in civilization between Antiquity and the Middle Ages

known by too rare remains such as the painted wooden panels found in the Pitsa cave or the limestone funerary steles painted by Greek artists from Hellenistic Alexandria

united the urban agglomeration and its nourishing territory

Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter. Anthropomorphic Figure Pendants of the Late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles. Afrique du Nord Jacqueline de Romilly analyzes theThis 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 perforated for suspension against the body. The data are drawn from new photographs, measurements, and observations of 535 specimens compiled by the author during 2011