The humble ethnographer Lodewijk Schmidt's accounts from Three voyages in Amazonian Guiana
Part 1. Introduction and context -- Part 2. Ethnographic accounts from Three voyages inF2351 -- Part 3. The people, and other important things.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden, Boston
Brill
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Caribbean Series
volume 38 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Part 1. Introduction and context -- Part 2. Ethnographic accounts from Three voyages inF2351 -- Part 3. The people, and other important things. "Thanks to Renzo Duin's annotated translation, the voice of Lodewijk Schmidt-an Afrodiasporic Saramakka Maroon from Surinam-is finally available for Anglophone audiences worldwide. More than anything else, Schmidt's three mid-twentieth-century ethnographic accounts tell the tragic story of Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Guiana Highlands (northern Brazil, and southern Suriname and French Guiana). Schmidt's is a story that takes account of the pathological mechanisms of colonialism, in which Indigenous Peoples and African Diaspora communities, both victims of colonialism, vilify each other falling privy to the divide-and-conquer mentality mechanisms of colonialism. Accounts like that of the death and mourning of a magnificent Indigenous leader, Alapité, on 13-14 August 1941, suggest a deep respect on the part of the Maroon author, while his accounts also show his awareness of how the Indigenous Peoples vilified the Maroons. Beyond the ethnographic element, Duin argues that Schmidt was sent on a covert mission to determine whether or not the Nazis had engaged in covert missions and if they had established bases and airfields in the region. As current ecological disasters, incurred by neocolonial, neoliberal and geopolitical practices, threaten to completely destroy the Amazonian forests that Schmidt describes, his meticulous accounts underscore the predetermined tragedy that is the result of the European and later North-American presence in present-day Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil. Duin's profound knowledge of the history, topography, and fauna of the region contextualizes Schmidt's ethnographic accounts and forces us to take account of the catastrophe that is deforestation and ethnocide of the Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Guiana Highlands"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 205 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9789004429710 978-90-04-42971-0 9789004430495 |