ISBN:
9780822369660
,
0822369664
,
9780822369783
,
0822369788
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 252 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Parallel Title:
Online version Price, Richard, 1941- Saamaka dreaming
DDC:
988.3/3
Keywords:
Saramakka
;
Brauch
;
Religion
;
Alltag
;
Surinam
;
Saramacca (Surinamese people)
;
Saramacca (Surinamese people) / Social life and customs
;
Saramacca (Surinamese people) / Folklore
;
Maroons / Suriname
;
Maroons
;
Saramacca (Surinamese people)
;
Saramacca (Surinamese people) / Social life and customs
;
Suriname
;
Folklore
;
Surinam
;
Saramakka
;
Alltag
;
Brauch
;
Religion
Description / Table of Contents:
Testing the waters -- On trial -- A feast for the ancestors -- Going "outside" -- On Nai's doorstep -- Under Kala's house -- The Sika -- What month is it? -- The captain's "granddaughter" -- Upriver -- At the ancestor shrine -- The cock's balls -- Nai's rivergod -- Agbago's seagod -- Kala's snakegod -- A touch of madness -- Playing for the gods -- A tree falls -- Sickness -- Death of a witch -- Chasing ghosts -- Death of a child -- Returns -- Foto -- Looking at paper -- The end of an era
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