Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Thoden van Velzen's life-long dedication to the socio-politics of the Okanisi -one of the Surinamese self-emancipated communities with African roots -formerly known as Aukaners, Djoeka or Ndyuka.It includes local voices and historicities transmitted orally by Okanisi historians.The foreword by his daughter, together with chapter 12, offers a glimpse into the setting and conduit of the author's fieldwork.The author brought together ethnographic data, written archival sources and oral histories, albeit in the form of redacted translations.With the paperback published during the Dutch slavery commemoration year (July 1, 2023 -July 1, 2024), it comes at a time of a renewed interest in the history, culture and religion of Afro-Surinamese and Maroon communities.This book, with its introduction by Richard Price, will serve as a point of reference and a source for future studies on the history and religion of Maroon communities in Suriname and beyond.The work follows the conventional linear and progressive historiography.Its first half contains nine chapters pertaining to the exodus
Author: Renzo S. Duin
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414211818
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