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By Tom Streissguth
Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
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Suriname in Pictures explores the history and government, economy, people, geography, and cultural life of Suriname. This edition includes comprehensive text with strong curriculum ties, beautiful full-color photography throughout, and interesting, detailed sidebars. |
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By Colleen Madonna
Mason Crest Publishers
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Named for the Surinen Indians who once lived within its borders, Suriname is located on the northeastern coast of South America. It is the continent's smallest independent nation. Dense tropical rain forests cover much of the country's sparsely populated, mountainous interior. Most of Suriname's population-of East Indian, African, and mixed-race descent-live in the flat coastal region to the north. Settled in the mid-1600s by the English, the colony was later traded to the Dutch in exchange for a colony in North America called New Amsterdam (which eventually became New York City). With independence from the Netherlands in 1975, the nation became the Republic of Suriname. Today, a growing tourist industry and exports of sugar, bauxite, and other crops and minerals drive much of the nation's economy. Each lavishly illustrated book in the "South America Today" series teaches about the geography, history, economy, and culture of each nation. Each volume is indexed, and contains a bibliography featuring books and Web sources for further information. |
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By ROSEMARIJN HOEFTE
University Press of Florida
Hardcover (288 pages)
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This text discusses and compares the social, cultural and economic consequences of migration and plantation life in Suriname and offers insights into the system of indentured labour in general. The study focuses on Plantation Marienburg, the largest sugar mill in Suriname. |
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By Eithne Carlin
KIT Publishers
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There may have been as many as twenty distinct Amerindian groups, speaking different languages, on Surinamese soil before the final settlement of the Europeans there in the 1650s, from which time on Amerindian life would change forever. While Suriname, for historical reasons, counts as a Caribbean country, the Amerindian peoples have a distinctly Amazonian culture, one in which the human and the spirit world are intricately connected. Transformations of form from spirit to human or to animal abound, different levels of realities co-exist. Mediation between these worlds is the task of the shaman.
This book not only offers a panoramic view of the rainforest of Suriname, giving the reader a glimpse of the Amerindian world of Suriname, but also factual up-to-date information on the eight remaining Amerindian communities of Suriname, some six of which are small and little-known ethnic groups living deep in the interior of the country. |
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By H. U. E. Thoden Van Velzen & W. Van Wetering
Waveland Pr Inc
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This is a book about witches and possession cults, about polytheistic priests and iconoclastic prophets, about magic as a cottage industry in a modernizing Afro-American society. It relates the world of the Ndyuka, a tribe of 50,000+ descendants of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century runaway African slaves in Suriname. It names the major innovators in the 300-year-long process of evolving and adjusting their belief system. Writing from an ethnohistoric perspective, the authors have enviably unraveled the complexities of a belief system engrained in a community of people living in Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America. The Ndyuka, one of the six Maroon groups in Suriname, are willing to let their decisions and lives be dominated by priests, shamans, oracles, and spirits. During their extended period of fieldwork, Dutch anthropologists Thoden van Velzen and van Wetering were able to penetrate Ndyuka religiosity—a feat not achieved by other researchers, since the Ndyuka do not freely expose themselves to outsiders. Among the sacred and secular activities they witnessed and recorded were a witch eradication movement and Maroon oracles at work. Now, in this vibrant text, they offer readers an intimate, inside-out account of Ndyuka social imagery and ideological principles—in-depth revelations neither previously revealed to nor easily understood by others who do not share the same worldview. |
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Ian Randle Publishers
Paperback (368 pages)
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This is the first book on the Suriname economy, which presents a comprehensive survey of the country’s economic policies and performances in recent years and its main challenges ahead. The contributors are associated with the National Planning Office of Suriname multi lateral institutions (including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Development Bank (IDB)) as well as several Dutch universities and institutions. The text is supplemented by a range of tabular and graphic material. |
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By R.A. Mittermeier & G.M. van Roosmalen
Conservation International,U.S.
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This laminated pocket guide with colour illustrations and line drawings to identify species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. In addition, you can use the checklist to note the location and date of the species you find. And it truly fits in your pocket. |
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By Colleen Madonna Flood Williams
Mason Crest Publishers
Library Binding (63 pages; 1)
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Presents the geography, history, economy, cities and communities, and people and culture of Suriname. Includes recipes, related projects, and a calendar of festivals. |
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By C. Van Binnendijk
Koninklijk Instituut Voor de Tropen
Hardcover (144 pages)
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On 25 November 2000 the Republic of Suriname celebrated twenty-five years of independence. The flowering of the visual arts in Suriname over those twenty-five years produced an impressive body of work, created not only by established artists but also by a promising younger generation. "Visual art in Suriname" offers an overview of 129 works (paintings, sculpture, works on paper) that are representative of the quality and the diversity in the arts. The book opens with an introductory essay on the history of the visual arts in Suriname in the twentieth century. This is presented chronologically, introducing the artists, art schools and organizations, and placing these in the context of national and international developments. The development of Surinam art reflects European and American art movements, as well as the many other traditions (Indian, Maroon, Creole, Javanese, Hindu, Chinese) which together make up the cultural mosaic of Suriname. "Visual art in Suriname" is a updated reprint of "Twenty years of visual art in Suriname 1975-1995". This reprint contains 40 new works of art and essential additional information. |
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By Ellen-Rose Kambel
IWGIA
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