
24 Jan NWIG Article | Rip Van Winkle in the Rainforest
New advanced article in the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) titled ‘Rip Van Winkle in the rainforest’ written by Richard Price and Sally Price. NWIG is published by Brill Academic Publishers in collaboration with KITLV.
This article reports on a several-week-long visit to Upper River Saamaka by two anthropologists who had been absent from the area for 45 years. They witnessed significant changes in transportation, communication, village layout, education, clothing, agriculture, ritual life, and sex roles. They also report on central government encroachment, illegal logging, Saamaka political resistance, and depopulation due to migration to the capital and to neighboring French Guiana.
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