Neo-Taino

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Neo-Taíno are the pre-Colombian indigenous Amerindian inhabitants of Cuba, the Lucaya of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and to a lesser extent of Haiti and Quisqueya (approximately the Dominican Republic) as opposed to the Taíno of Boriquen (Puerto Rico). Some scholars consider it important to distinguish the neo-Taíno nations from the original Taíno, since the neo-Taíno had far more diverse cultural input and a greater societal and ethnic heterogeneity than the original Taíno.[citation needed]

Taíno studies are in a state of both vigorous revival and conflict (Haslip-Viera, 2001). In this conflict deeply imbedded cultural mores, senses of nationality and ethnicity struggle with each other. Neo-Taíno nations and related ethnic groups (following Granberry and Vescelius, 2004) include:

[edit] Literature

  • Granberry, Julian, and Gary Vescelius, 2004: Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles, University Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, ISBN 0-8173-5123-X
  • Haslip-Viera, Gabriel (Editor), 2001: Taíno Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity and Cultural Politics, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton N.J. ISBN 1-55876-259-0


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