Maroons in Guyane

Past, Present, Future
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8203-6086-7
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Series

For more than four centuries, communities of maroons (men and women who escaped slavery) dotted the fringes of plantation America, from Brazil through the Caribbean to the United States. Today their descendants still form semi-independent enclaves— in Jamaica, Brazil, Colombia, Belize, Suriname, Guyane, and elsewhere—remaining proud of their maroon origins and, in some cases, faithful to unique cultural traditions forged during the earliest days of Afro-American history.

In 1986, expelled by the military regime of Suriname, anthropologists Richard and Sally Price turned to neighboring Guyane (French Guiana), where thousands of Maroons were taking refuge from the Suriname civil war. Over the next fifteen years, their conversations with local people convinced them of the need to replace the pervasive stereotypes about Maroons in Guyane with accurate information. In 2003, Les Marrons became a local best seller. In 2020, after a series of further visits, the Prices wrote a new edition taking into account the many rapid changes.

Available for the first time in English, Maroons in Guyane reviews the history of Maroon peoples in Guyane, explains how these groups diff er from one another, and analyzes their current situations in the bustling, multicultural world of this far-fl ung outpost of the French Republic. A gallery of the magnifi cent arts of the Maroons completes the volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Price, Richard

Price, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Price (Author)
RICHARD PRICE has written extensively on the history and culture of African Americans throughout the hemisphere. His books include First-Time, Alabi’s World, The Convict and the Colonel, Travels with Tooy, Rainforest Warriors, and, with Sally Price, Maroons in Guyane (Georgia).

Sally Price (Author)
SALLY PRICE is the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Emerita at the College of William & Mary.