Meaning of areíto | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of performance and ceremony of the Taíno people of the Caribbean.

Examples

“What did an areíto actually entail? The sixteenth-century chroniclers tell us that areítos recited histories, which were transmitted through the generations.”

“In early encounters, the Spanish were welcomed and entertained by the Taíno, who arranged areítos in their honor as a type of elite hospitality.”

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