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Maroon Cosmopolitics : personhood, creativity and incorporation / edited by Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Cunha, Olivia Maria Gomes da, editor.
E.J. Brill (Firm)
Series:
Studies in global slavery ; v. 6.
Studies in global slavery, 2405-4585 ; volume 6
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Maroons--Suriname--Social conditions--21st century--Congresses.
Maroons.
Maroons--French Guiana--Social conditions--21st century--Congresses.
Social conditions.
French Guiana.
Suriname.
Genre:
Conference papers and proceedings.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 380 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Part 1 (Re) Encounters
1 A Half-Century of "Bush-Negro" Studies p. 35 / Richard Price
2 Why the African Gods Failed the Aukan Maroons p. 54 / H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen
Part 2 Effects
3 Research on Maroon Languages and Language Practices among Matawai and Kwinti Maroons p. 83 / Bettina Migge
4 Representations, Sexuality and Male-Female Relations among the Boni of the Maroni Valley, French Guiana, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century p. 117 / Jean Moomou
5 New Lives for Ndyuka Women: "Everything's Changed but the Men" p. 147 / Diane Vernon
6 Performing Ethnicity as a Way of Contesting Removals: Bureaucratic Strategies and Affirmation of Busikonde Ways of Dwelling in Soolan (French Guiana) p. 177 / Clémence Léobal
Part 3 Incorporations
7 Spirits and Pain in the Making of Ndyuka Politics p. 203 / Stuart Strange
8 Funerals, Rhetorics, Rules and Rulers in Upper Suriname p. 234 / Rogério Brittes W. Pires
9 Self-Fashioning and Visualization among the Cottica Ndyuka p. 268 / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha
Part 4 Creations
10 Modeling Cultural Adaptability: Maroon Cosmopolitanism and the Banamba Dance Contest p. 307 / Corinna Campbell
11 "Real Bushinengué": Guianese Maroon Music in Transition p. 330 / Kenneth Bilby and Rivke Jaffe
12 An Anthropologist's Dilemma: Maroon Tembe in the Twenty-First Century p. 350 / Sally Price.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9789004388062
9004388060
Publisher Number:
99983185813
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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