Maroon Cosmopolitics : Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gomes Maria, Olívia, editor.

Series:

Studies in Global Slavery 6.

Studies in Global Slavery ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society.

Political science--Social aspects..

Political science.

French Guiana.

Suriname.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation sheds further light on the contemporary modes of Maroon circulation and presence in Suriname and in the French Guiana. The contributors assembled in the volume look to describe Maroon ways of inhabiting, transforming and circulating through different localities in the Guianas, as well as their modes of creating and incorporating knowledge and artefacts into their social relations and spaces. By bringing together authors with diverse perspectives on the situation of the Guianese Maroon at the twenty-first century, the volume contributes to the anthropological literature on Maroon societies, providing ethnographic, and historical depth and legitimacy to the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Exploring Maroon Worlds on the Move / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha

(Re) Encounters

A Half-Century of “Bush-Negro” Studies / Richard Price

Why the African Gods Failed the Aukan Maroons / H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen

Effects

Research on Maroon Languages and Language Practices among Matawai and Kwinti Maroons / Bettina Migge

Representations, Sexuality and Male-Female Relations among the Boni of the Maroni Valley, French Guiana, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Jean Moomou

New Lives for Ndyuka Women: “Everything’s Changed but the Men” / Diane Vernon

Performing Ethnicity as a Way of Contesting Removals: Bureaucratic Strategies and Affirmation of Busikonde Ways of Dwelling in Soolan (French Guiana) / Clémence Léobal

Incorporations

Spirits and Pain in the Making of Ndyuka Politics / Stuart Strange

Funerals, Rhetorics, Rules and Rulers in Upper Suriname / Rogério Brittes W. Pires

Self-Fashioning and Visualization among the Cottica Ndyuka / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha

Creations

Modeling Cultural Adaptability: Maroon Cosmopolitanism and the Banamba Dance Contest / Corinna Campbell

“Real Bushinengué”: Guianese Maroon Music in Transition / Kenneth Bilby and Rivke Jaffe

An Anthropologist’s Dilemma: Maroon Tembe in the Twenty-First Century / Sally Price.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-38806-0

90-04-35919-2

OCLC:

1048932835

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004388062 DOI