The Family System Of The Paramaribo Creoles

Author : Willem F. L. Buschkens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401177848
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Family System of the Paramaribo Creoles written by Willem F. L. Buschkens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.1. General In this book the family life of the lower-class Creole population of 1 Paramaribo will be discussed. This group, which will henceforward be referred to as "the lower-class Creoles", possesses a "West Indian" family system, implying that the latter display all the main characteristics of the Caribbean Afro-American family. The Creoles constitute a numerically important ethnic segment of the society of Surinam. This society is composed of different ethnic groups, comprising, besides a handful of Amerindians, an "immigrant population" including people from many different parts of the world. It is made up of Creoles, Indians (or Hindustanis, as they are called in Surinam), Indonesians (Javanese), Chinese, Europeans, Lebanese and Bush Negroes, the latter of whom still live predominantly in tribes. The Creoles are the descendants of those Negro slaves brought to Surinam from Africa who did not escape from bondage by running away from the plantations into the Bush, as their brothers the Bush Negroes did. The circumstances under which the bulk of the slaves lived were appalling. Nor were they - or are they still in p~ at present - much better for their descendants the lower-class Creoles.

Author : Willem F.L. Buschkens
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004287027
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Family System of the Paramaribo Creoles written by Willem F.L. Buschkens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman E. Whitten
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211941
Total Pages : 574 pages
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Download or read book Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, Volume 2 written by Norman E. Whitten and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows regional Black history.

Author : Robert Goffee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317496396
Total Pages : 198 pages
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Download or read book Entrepreneurship in Europe (Routledge Revivals) written by Robert Goffee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing character of the economies in Eastern and Western Europe are leading more people to start their own businesses. This volume, first published in 1987, highlights the trends developing over the closing decades of the twentieth century. Although business start-up requires financial and marketing skills, it also demands important physchological and sociological inputs. On the basis of detailed accounts of the relevant social processes, this volume describes the varied experiences of entrepreneurship as they are emerging among various groups in both Eastern and Western Europe including the unemployed, women, ethnic minorities and others. This book will be of interest to students of business studies and sociology.

Author : Janet Momsen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253338969
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Change in the Caribbean written by Janet Momsen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent discussion of postmodern culture describes a movement from center to periphery, privileging cultures that were formerly marginalized. Women and Change in the Caribbean, a study of women marginalized by both gender and race in a region such as the Caribbean—itself marginalized in global terms—attempts to extract insights relevant both within and beyond geographical confines. This volume offers a feminist interpretation of a multicultural society emerging from colonialism and in the process of change and restructuring. The nineteen chapters include case studies of fifteen different Caribbean territories including Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Grenada, and Guyana. The book is divided into two sections: the first looks at women's status and gender relations in the private and public spheres; the second looks at women's economic activity. Taking a broad pan-Caribbean comparative view contributors discuss territories with American, British, Dutch, Danish, French, and Spanish colonial traditions and current political links. The contributors come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including agriculture, anthropology, economics, geography, history, sociology, and women's studies.

Author : R. Hoefte
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137360135
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century written by R. Hoefte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender, and ethnic identity over the course of Suriname's modern history, from the capital city of Paramaribo to the country's resource-rich rainforest.

Author : Rosemarijn Höfte
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004475346
Total Pages : 383 pages
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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Suriname written by Rosemarijn Höfte and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suriname is a fascinating yet also little known Caribbean country. Fascinating because a unique variety of lifestyles and group identities has characterized this country from its early beginnings as a European plantation colony, but even more so since the influx of contract laborers from British India and Java in the nineteenth century. Little known because even when attention was focused on the country, particularly following a military coup d'état in 1980, this awareness has contributed little to a better understanding of the country's complex developments. In fact, the media have not unveiled but rather covered the essentials of the evolving Suriname society. Combining a broad thematic approach with a focus on long-term developments in Suriname, 20th Century Suriname consists of fourteen chapters that discuss the main trends with respect to major areas of research. Topics such as Surinamese politics and economics, as well as its social, religious, and cultural aspects are covered by the best contemporary specialists on Suriname in the United States, the Netherlands, and Suriname. This volume provides an accessible introduction to Suriname for a general audience, including graduate and undergraduate students, and an authoritative 'state of the art review' for Suriname specialists.

Author : Gloria Wekker
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231131623
Total Pages : 335 pages
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Download or read book The Politics of Passion written by Gloria Wekker and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Passion centers on an old institution among the Afro-Surinamese working class in which women have multiple sexual relationships with both men and women. These women reject marriage because of the bonds of dependency it fosters, preferring to create their own families of kin, lovers, and children. Gloria Wekker analyzes this phenomenon, known as mati work, as she vividly describes the lives of Afro-Surinamese women. She gives an account of women's sexuality that is not limited to either heterosexuality or same-sex sexuality. Her work offers new perspectives on black women's sexuality, the lives of Caribbean women, transnational gay and lesbian movements, and an Afro-Surinamese tradition that challenges conventional Western notions of marriage, gender, and sexuality. By foregrounding the voices of Afro-Surinamese women, Wekker illuminates these women's daily lives in light of the changes occurring in Surinamese society. She also considers the historical, religious, psychological, economic, linguistic, cultural, and political elements that have shaped their lives. The book concludes with stories of women who have migrated to the Netherlands, where they have created new, vibrant mati communities.

Author : Rosemarijn Hoefte
Publisher : Oxford, England : Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Suriname written by Rosemarijn Hoefte and published by Oxford, England : Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ann Pescatello
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Old Roots in New Lands written by Ann Pescatello and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1977-08-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: