Book
The Paramacca Maroons: a study in religious acculturation
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1997 • Pages:
By: Lenoir, John D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Lenoir provides a very clear account of Paramaccan religion and acculturation, having lived with the Paramakas for a 26-month period from 1970 to 1972. Having no funding for his research, he was dependent on growing his own food and participating in the Paramaccan system of exchanges. He discusses Paramaccan gods, spirits, cults, oracles, sorcery, and taboos; and better than anyone else, explains the relationship between lineages, witchcraft, and avenging spirits, with their spirit mediums and cults.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sorcery
- Cult of the dead
- Eschatology
- Avoidance and taboo
- Ecclesiastical organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ndyuka
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Paramaccan tribe, Suriname and French Guiana
- NotesAdditional notes
- John D. Lenoir
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- New School for Social Research, 1973
- UM 74-19,518
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-213)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Djuka people