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Saamaka dreaming / Richard Price and Sally Price

Price, Richard, 1941- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Price, Sally, 1943- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Durham, NC ; London : Duke University Press, 2017

xi, 252 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Erscheint auch als: Price, Richard, 1941- author : Saamaka dreaming. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-8223-6966-0 ( : hardcover); 978-0-8223-6978-3 ( : pbk.)

978-0-8223-7286-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2016059668

OCoLC: 993996383     

F2431.S27

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LOC-SH: Saramacca (Surinamese people) ; Saramacca (Surinamese people) -- Social life and customs ; Saramacca (Surinamese people) -- Folklore ; Maroons -- Suriname

Maroons ; Saramacca (Surinamese people) ; Suriname ; Folklore

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