In and Out of Suriname

In and Out of Suriname
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9789004280120
ISBN-13 : 900428012X
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis In and Out of Suriname by : Eithne B. Carlin

This title will be available online in its entirety in Open Access In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the notion of bounded ethnicity enshrined in historical and ethnographic literature on Suriname.

We Slaves of Suriname

We Slaves of Suriname
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 9781509549030
ISBN-13 : 150954903X
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis We Slaves of Suriname by : Anton de Kom

Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time, the Surinamese writer and resistance leader recounts the history of his homeland, from the first settlements by Europeans in search of gold through the era of the slave trade and the period of Dutch colonial rule, when the old slave mentality persisted, long after slavery had been formally abolished. 159 years after the abolition of slavery in Suriname and 88 years after its initial publication, We Slaves of Suriname has lost none of its brilliance and power.

Atlas of the Languages of Suriname

Atlas of the Languages of Suriname
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015058205967
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Atlas of the Languages of Suriname by : Eithne Carlin

Studie over de talen in Suriname.

Amphibians of Suriname

Amphibians of Suriname
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 389
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ISBN-10 : 9789004207998
ISBN-13 : 9004207996
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Amphibians of Suriname by : Paul E. Ouboter

The "Amphibians of Suriname" is the first overview of our present knowledge of this interesting group for Suriname. For all 104 species a short description, photograph, distribution map and data on natural history and taxonomy are given.

Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname

Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9781496834898
ISBN-13 : 1496834895
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname by : Marcel Weltak

Contributions by Herman Dijo, J. Ketwaru, Guilly Koster, Lou Lichtveld, Pondo O’Bryan, and Marcel Weltak When Marcel Weltak’s Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname was published in Dutch in 1990, it was the first book to provide an overview of the music styles originating from the land that had recently gained its independence from the Netherlands. Up until the 1990s, little had been published that observed the music of the country. Weltak’s book was the first to examine both the instruments and the way in which they are played as well as the melodic and rhythmic components of music produced by the country’s ethnically diverse populations, including people of Amerindian, African, Indian, Indonesian/Javanese, and Chinese descent. Since the book’s first appearance, a new generation of musicians of Surinamese descent has carried on making music, and some of their elders referred to in the original edition have passed away. The catalog of recordings that have become available has also expanded, particularly in the areas of hip-hop, rap, jazz, R&B, and new fusions such as kaskawi. This edition, in English for the first time, includes a new opening chapter by Marcel Weltak giving a historical sketch of Suriname’s relationship to the Netherlands. It includes updates on the popular music of second- and third-generation musicians of Surinamese descent in the Netherlands, and Weltak's own subsequent and vital research into the Amerindian and maroon music of the interior. The new introduction is followed by the integral text of the original edition. New appendices have been added to this edition that include a bibliography and updated discography; a listing of films, videos, and DVDs on or about Surinamese music or musicians; and concise, alphabetically arranged notes on musical instruments and styles as well as brief biographies of those authors who contributed texts.

The Suriname Job

The Suriname Job
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 1546687041
ISBN-13 : 9781546687047
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Suriname Job by : Vince Milam

When a mysterious client asks former Delta Force operator Case Lee to investigate a rebellion in South America, he uncovers an incredible global conspiracy. Welcome to revolution, murder, and behind-the-curtains intrigue. As events unfold, the spies and mercenaries come to a hard realization. You may mess with a lot on this good earth, but you don't mess with Case Lee.A murdered wife. A bounty on his head. Case lives an isolated life on the Ace of Spades, an old wooden cruiser plying the waters of the Intracoastal Waterway from Virginia to Florida. His only friends are a collection of former Delta Force teammates spread across the globe. And an enigmatic broker of clandestine information, Jules of the Clubhouse. Case wants out. But when he returns from South America, bounty hunters arrive. And in their search for him discover his special skills. Very special skills.

Field Guide to the Birds of Suriname

Field Guide to the Birds of Suriname
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 658
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ISBN-10 : 9789004352339
ISBN-13 : 9004352333
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Field Guide to the Birds of Suriname by : Arie L. Spaans

Suriname, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern South America, is a relatively small country compared to most other South American countries. It nevertheless has a rich avifauna. By the end of 2017, 751 species (including 765 subspecies) were known to occur in Suriname. Most of the land area of Suriname is still covered with tropical rainforest and the country should be a must-visit for birdwatchers. Suriname is even mentioned as being the best country to spot certain neotropical species. Surprisingly, few birders visit Suriname. The main reason given is the lack of a handy pocket guide that can easily be carried in a backpack. This (revised and updated) edition of the Field Guide to the Birds of Suriname (with its 109 color plates) tries to fill this gap. In addition to species accounts, data on topography, climate, geology, geomorphology, biogeography, avifauna composition, conservation, and hotspots for bird watching are given. So, why delay your trip to this beautiful and friendly country any longer? Suriname with its rich avifauna awaits you!

Rainforest Warriors

Rainforest Warriors
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780812203721
ISBN-13 : 0812203720
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Rainforest Warriors by : Richard Price

Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990s, its government began awarding extensive logging and mining concessions to multinational companies from China, Indonesia, Canada, and elsewhere. Saramaka Maroons, the descendants of self-liberated African slaves who had lived in that rainforest for more than 300 years, resisted, bringing their complaints to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2008, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its landmark judgment in their favor, their efforts to protect their threatened rainforest were thrust into the international spotlight. Two leaders of the struggle to protect their way of life, Saramaka Headcaptain Wazen Eduards and Saramaka law student Hugo Jabini, were awarded the Goldman Prize for the Environment (often referred to as the environmental Nobel Prize), under the banner of "A New Precedent for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples." Anthropologist Richard Price, who has worked with Saramakas for more than forty years and who participated actively in this struggle, tells the gripping story of how Saramakas harnessed international human rights law to win control of their own piece of the Amazonian forest and guarantee their cultural survival.

The Mammals of Suriname

The Mammals of Suriname
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 768
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ISBN-10 : 9789004626652
ISBN-13 : 9004626654
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mammals of Suriname by : Husson

The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman

The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman
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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781647921552
ISBN-13 : 1647921554
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman by : John Gabriel Stedman

"Jared Ross Hardesty's new critical edition, The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman, makes an important and necessary intervention into the study of eighteenth-century Caribbean travel writing and natural history by foregrounding the previously unpublished diary entries Stedman authored in Suriname, rather than focusing solely on his writings printed in the metropoles of Europe. Hardesty's edition is especially useful because it includes both a transcription of Stedman's Suriname diary and a detailed appendix tracking key discrepancies between the diary and Stedman's heavily revised printed natural history. This focus on genre and the editorial process in the production of Anglophone transatlantic writing is an excellent resource for students and scholars of the eighteenth-century Caribbean and the Atlantic World. I can see this being a helpful resource in an early American or eighteenth-century history or literature course, as it would enable students to easily compare differing editions of Stedman's Suriname writings. What Hardesty's edition of The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman offers is a more accessible study of how eighteenth-century writing on maroonage, slavery, science, and abolition was heavily mediated in the print and production process, as this compiled edition offers critical insight into the gendered and racial politics of life in the colonial Caribbean as well as how printers in the metropole attempted to alter the writing of colonizing authors like Stedman." —Elizabeth Polcha, Drexel University