Book
Saramaka social structure: analysis of a maroon society in Surinam
Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico • (12) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 177
By: Price, Richard.
Abstract
This is the published version of Richard Price's doctoral dissertation on Saramakan social structure. In it he discusses marriage and residence patterns, inheritance, land tenure, chiefly succession, and lineage organization and fission. Of particular interest is his discussion on KUNU or avenging ancestral spirit, whose cult forms the center of lineage groups (BEE), and who are responsible for health and moral cohesion of the village. Price also discusses the choices and decisions behind marital residence, which partly depend on dynamics within the polygamous family and respective demands for labor by village-based lineages of wives and husbands.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1999
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 1997
- Field Date
- 1966-1968
- Coverage Date
- 1700-1970
- Coverage Place
- Suriname
- Notes
- Richard Price
- Originally presented as the author's thesis, Harvard, 1969
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index
- LCCN
- 74021842
- LCSH
- Saramacca (Surinam people)