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Saramaka social structureBook 1975 • Price, Richard
Saramaka • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
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 particula...First-timeBook 1983 • Price, Richard
Saramaka • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is an oral history of the Saramakans, collected and annotated by the ethnographer. History is learned at the feet of elders who themselves learned it in this way. Each Saramakan historian throughout the course of his life picks up bits and piece...Alabi's worldBook 1990 • Price, Richard
Saramaka • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is a multi-vocal history (1660-1820) of the Saramaka drawn from their own oral history (see also document no. 4), and the written accounts of Dutch colonial officers and German Moravian missionaries. Price also includes his own voice based on hi...Culture summaryessay 1999 • Price, Richard & Price, Sally
Saramaka • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is a culture summary of the Saramaka....Two evenings in SaramakaBook 1991 • Price, Richard & Price, Sally
Saramaka • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This work is largely a transcript of two evenings of folk-telling among the Saramakas. It is common for close family and friends to gather together on the last evening of a funeral and tell folktales. The Prices taped two such events during their ini...