Two Evenings in Saramaka

Two Evenings in Saramaka
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 0226680622
ISBN-13 : 9780226680620
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Two Evenings in Saramaka by : Richard Price

Set in the more general context of tale telling by the descendants of Africans throughout the Americas and of recent scholarship in performance studies, these Saramaka tales are presented as a dramatic script. With the help of nearly forty photographs, readers become familiar not only with the characters in folktale-land, but also with the men and women who so imaginatively bring them to life. And because music complements narration in Saramaka just as it does elsewhere in Afro-America, more than fifty songs are presented here in musical notation.

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.

On the Mall

On the Mall
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : 1879407078
ISBN-13 : 9781879407077
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis On the Mall by : Richard Price

" . . . engrossing, nuanced, productively and honestly critical in the best sense of the term." —Richard Bauman After recounting their experiences as cultural mediators between African American Maroons from the Suriname rain forest and U.S. festival-goers on the Washington Mall, the authors reflect on how folklorists, anthropologists, and museum curators represent others, as well as themselves.

Equatoria

Equatoria
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9781136041662
ISBN-13 : 1136041664
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Equatoria by : Richard Price

A postmodern romp through the rain forest, Equatoria is both travelogue and cultural critique. On the right-hand pages, the Prices chronicle their 1990 artifact-collecting expedition up the rivers of French Guiana, and on the left, stage an accompanying sideshow that enlists the help of Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Alex Haley, James Clifford, Eric Hobsbawn, Germaine Greer, and even the noted anthropologist James Goodfellow. Charged with acquiring objects for a new museum, the Prices kept a log of their day-to-day adventures and misadventures, constantly confronting their ambivalence about the act of collecting, the very possibility of exhibiting cultures and the future of anthropology. Probing the nature of museums, collecting, and power relations between "us" and "them," the Prices raise many troubling questions.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 2005
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ISBN-10 : 9781351544238
ISBN-13 : 1351544233
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by : Dale A. Olsen

The Encyclopedia's coverage ranges from the Bahamas to Tierra del Fuego and from Baja California to Uruguay as it describes the extraordinarily rich and varied music of people from all the countries south of the Rio Grande river.

Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 657
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ISBN-10 : 9781135949563
ISBN-13 : 1135949565
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Ethnomusicology by : Jennifer Post

Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography of books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of ethnomusicology. The book is divided into two parts; Part One is organised by resource type in catagories of greatest concern to students and scholars. This includes handbooks and guides; encyclopedias and dictionaries; indexes and bibliographies; journals; media sources; and archives. It also offers annotated entries on the basic literature of ethnomusicological history and research. Part Two provides a list of current publications in the field that are widely used by ethnomusicologists. Multiply indexed, this book serves as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the past decades.

Maroon Arts

Maroon Arts
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 0807085510
ISBN-13 : 9780807085516
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Maroon Arts by : Sally Price

Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora Lavishly illustrated with more than 350 images, this groundbreaking new book traces traditions in woodcarving, textiles, clothing, and jewelry created by the Maroon people of Suriname and French Guiana.

Traditional Storytelling Today

Traditional Storytelling Today
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 644
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ISBN-10 : 9781135917142
ISBN-13 : 1135917140
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Traditional Storytelling Today by : Margaret Read MacDonald

Traditional Storytelling Today explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of comtemporary storytelling. Never before has such a wealth of information about storytelling traditions been gathered together. Storytelling is alive and well throughout the world as the approximately 100 articles by more than 90 authors make clear. Most of the essays average 2,000 words and discuss a typical storytelling event, give a brief sample text, and provide theory from the folklorist. A comprehensive index is provided. Bibliographies afford the reader easy access to additional resources.

A History of Literature in the Caribbean

A History of Literature in the Caribbean
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 682
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ISBN-10 : 9789027298331
ISBN-13 : 9027298335
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of Literature in the Caribbean by : A. James Arnold

For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists. Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume. The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugar’s Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.

The Other Side of Sadness

The Other Side of Sadness
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781541699427
ISBN-13 : 1541699424
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Other Side of Sadness by : George A. Bonanno

In this thoroughly revised and updated classic, a renowned psychologist shows that mourning is far from predictable, and all of us share a surprising ability to be resilient The conventional view of grieving--encapsulated by the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance--is defined by a mourning process that we can only hope to accept and endure. In The Other Side of Sadness, psychologist and emotions expert George Bonanno argues otherwise. Our inborn emotions--anger and denial, but also relief and joy--help us deal effectively with loss. To expect or require only grief-stricken behavior from the bereaved does them harm. In fact, grieving goes beyond mere sadness, and it can actually deepen interpersonal connections and even lead to a new sense of meaning in life.