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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Real property
- Regulation of marriage
- Residence
- Lineages
- Clans
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Saramaka
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- 1966-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1700-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Suriname
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard Price
- Originally presented as the author's thesis, Harvard, 1969
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74021842
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Saramacca (Surinam people)