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In the shadow of the tiger : the Amerindians of Suriname / Eithne B. Carlin (text) ; Diederik van Goethem (photography).
Penn Museum Library F2420 .C37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carlin, Eithne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Suriname--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
- Indians of South America.
- Manners and customs.
- Suriname.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various paging) : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : KIT Publishers, [2009]
- Summary:
- There may have been as many as twenty distinct Amerindian groups, speaking different languages, on Surinamese soil before the final settlement of the Europeans there in the 1650s, from which time on Amerindian life would change forever. While Suriname, for historical reasons, counts as a Caribbean country, the Amerindian peoples have a distinctly Amazonian culture, one in which the human and the spirit world are intricately connected. Transformations of form from spirit to human or to animal abound, different levels of realities co-exist. Mediation between these worlds is the task of the shaman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789460220265
- 9460220266
- OCLC:
- 320189434
- Publisher Number:
- 99939147750
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