New advanced article in the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) titled ‘Rip Van Winkle in the rainforest’.

Abstract

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. constrained by a commitment to empirical research, legitimation and referencing. Why do we do what we do? When and why do we stand our ground? When and why do we break with convention?o make a difference.

Authors

Richard Price and Sally Price. 

Publisher

NWIG is published by Brill Academic Publishers in collaboration with KITLV.

22-01-2025

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