| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 324 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations |
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Verhandelingen - Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 71 |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 71
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Surinam -- The research -- The initial period of settlement of the plantation colony up to the abolition of the slave trade -- The period from 1808 to Emancipation in 1863 -- The post-Emancipation period -- The situation after World War II -- The nature of unions and the household structure -- The functioning of the family system -- Final remarks -- Appendix 1. Letter of introduction explaining the nature of the research -- Appendix 2. The questionnaire -- Appendix 3. Tables A-R not inserted in the text -- Appendix 4. Interview scheme B.O.G. sample |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Families -- Suriname -- History
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Families
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Population
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Social conditions
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Familierelaties.
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Creolen.
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Suriname -- Social conditions
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Suriname -- Population
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| Subject |
Suriname
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9004287027 |
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9789004287020 |
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