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In the Shadow of the Oracle: Religion as Politics in a Suriname Maroon Society

Door H. U. E. Thoden van Velzen e.a.

Categorie	Suriname
Boeknummer	#411401-YB5
Titel	In the Shadow of the Oracle: Religion as Politics in a Suriname Maroon Society
Auteur	Velzen, H. U. E. Thoden van & Wilhelmina van Wetering
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Longrove, IL : Waveland Press
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	1577663233
ISBN13	9781577663232
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	"'This is a book about witches and possession cults, about polytheistic priests and iconoclastic prophets, about magic as a cottage industry in a modernizing Afro-American society. It relates the world of the Ndyuka, a tribe of 50,000+ descendants of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century runaway African slaves in Suriname. It names the major innovators in the 300-year-long process of evolving and adjusting their belief system'--Dirk van der Elst. Writing from an ethnohistoric perspective, the authors have ... unraveled the complexities of a belief system engrained in a community of people living in Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America. The Ndyuka, one of the six Maroon groups in Suriname, are willing to let their decisions and lives be dominated by priests, shamans, oracles,... (Lees verder) and spirits. During their extended period of fieldwork, Dutch anthropologists Thoden van Velzen and van Wetering were able to penetrate Ndyuka religiosity, a feat not achieved by other researchers, since the Ndyuka do not freely expose themselves to outsiders. Among the sacred and secular activities they witnessed and recorded were a witch eradication movement and Maroon oracles at work. Now, in this ... text, they offer readers an intimate, inside-out account of Ndyuka social imagery and ideological principles, in-depth revelations neither previously revealed to nor easily understood by others who do not share the same worldview"--Back cover.
Pagina's	298
Conditie	Goed — Top right corner creased.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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