The humble ethnographer : : Lodewijk Schmidt's accounts from Three voyages in Amazonian Guiana /

The humble ethnographer : : Lodewijk Schmidt's accounts from Three voyages in Amazonian Guiana / / translated, annotated and introduced by Renzo Duin.

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...

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Brill Academic Publishers.
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Duin, Renzo,
Brill Academic Publishers.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Caribbean Series ; 38.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • About the Translator and Editor of the Present Volume
  • Book Summary
  • Part 1: Introduction and Context
  • 1 Definitions and Aspirations
  • 2 The Significance of Lodewijk Schmidt’s Accounts to Anthropology Today
  • 3 The Politics of Authorship and Circumstances of First Publication
  • 4 Mapping the Unknown (or: An Audacious Colonial Endeavor)
  • 5 Notes on the Translation
  • 1 A Short Note on Indigenous Peoples and African Diaspora Communities
  • 2 Some Surinamese Socio-political Concepts
  • 3 Some Typical Surinamese Terms
  • 4 A Short Note on Geographic Names
  • Part 2: Ethnographic Accounts from Three Voyages in Amazonian Guiana
  • 6 Introduction to the Original Publication
  • 7 Notes on Wayana and Trio Demographics and Settlement Names
  • 8 Account of the First Expedition
  • 9 Account of the Second Expedition
  • 10 Account of the Third Expedition
  • Part 3: The People, and other Important Things
  • 11 General Comments
  • 12 Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the List of Names of Inhabitants
  • 13 The Inhabitants of the Wayana Villages on the Litani and Mapahoni Recorded by Lodewijk Schmidt between November 1940 and January 1941
  • 14 The Inhabitants of the Trio and Wayana Villages in South Suriname and in North Brazil Recorded Between November 1940 and March 1942
  • 15 The Inhabitants of the Wayana Villages on the Jari and Paru de l’Este Recorded Between November 1940 and January 1941
  • 16 Afterthought
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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