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Saamaka dreaming / Richard Price and Sally Price.
LIBRA F2431.S27 P753 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, Richard, 1941- author.
- Price, Sally, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saramacca (Surinamese people).
- Saramacca (Surinamese people)--Social life and customs.
- Saramacca (Surinamese people)--Folklore.
- Maroons--Suriname.
- Maroons.
- Folklore.
- Suriname.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Testing the waters
- On trial
- A feast for the ancestors
- Going "outside"
- On Nai's doorstep
- Under Kala's house
- The Sika
- What month is it?
- The captain's "granddaughter"
- Upriver
- At the ancestor shrine
- The cock's balls
- Nai's rivergod
- Agbago's seagod
- Kala's snakegod
- A touch of madness
- Playing for the gods
- A tree falls
- Sickness
- Death of a witch
- Chasing ghosts
- Death of a child
- Returns
- Foto
- Looking at paper
- The end of an era.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Price, Richard, 1941- Saamaka dreaming.
- ISBN:
- 9780822369660
- 0822369664
- 9780822369783
- 0822369788
- OCLC:
- 957301820
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