Preface and acknowledgments / Susana Torruella Leval
Foreword / Jeffrey Quilter
The Caribbean before European conquest: a chronology / Samuel M. Wilson
An introduction to Taíno culture and history / Ricardo E. Alegría
The daily life of the Taíno people / Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
The Taíno social and political order / Samuel M. Wilson
To be seated with 'great courtesy and veneration': contextual aspects of the Taíno duho / Joanna M. Ostapkowicz
The creation myths of the Taíno / José Juan Arrom
Taíno stone collars, elbow stones, and three-pointers / Jeffery B. Walker
Zemi three-pointer stones / Shirley McGinnis
Ancestor worship and cosmology among the Taíno / Peter E. Siegel
The bat and the owl: nocturnal images of death / Manuel A. García Arévalo
Just wasting away: Taíno shamanism and concepts of fertility / Peter G. Roe
Epilogue: the beaded zemi in the Pigorini Museum / Dicey Taylor, Marco Biscione, and Peter G. Roe
Appendices / Translated by Susan G. Griswold. 1. Diario del primer viaje and others / Christopher Columbus. 2. De Orbe Novo Decades / Pietro Martire d'Anghiera. 3. Apologética historia de las Indias / Fray Bartolomé de las Casas.
