H U E Thoden Van Velzen
Biographic Data
| ID | 140771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H U E Thoden Van Velzen |
| GIVEN NAMES | H U E Thoden |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Velzen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN VELZEN H U E T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Prophets of Doom: A History of the Okanisi Maroons in Suriname
Once the Maroons escaped from slavery and established their communities in the remote interior of Suriname, attention shifted from military threat to internal danger. As they faced these dangers in an unknown rainforest, they sought refuge in prophetic movements directed by charismatic religious leaders. This book charts the history of Okanisi religious movements from their escape to the present day. It is based on sixty years of fieldwork by the…
Through Maroon worlds: A conversation with Bonno Thoden van Velzen
This article explores some of the writings of Dutch anthropologist H.U.E. (Bonno) Thoden van Velzen on the Ndyuka Maroon peoples of Suriname and Guyana, focusing particularly on the author’s description of the role of gods, spirits, and other non-human beings in Maroon socialities and worlds. The first part of the article describes Thoden van Velzen’s intellectual production, showing how his professional and political commitments to the Ndyuka le…
Een zwarte vrijstaat in Suriname: De Okaanse samenleving in de achttiende eeuw
Waar plantages en slaven zijn, vluchten slaven van plantages. Al vrij snel na de stichting van de plantagekolonie Suriname (1651) ontsnapten Afrikaanse slaven om een menswaardig bestaan op te bouwen in het immense regenwoud. Zij vestigden zich in het labyrint van kreken en rivieren en voerden vandaar een felle guerrilla tegen de blanke planters. Een van deze groepen Marrons, zoals de gevluchte slaven in de literatuur bekend staan, is de Okanisi.E…
Revenants That Cannot Be Shaken: Collective Fantasies in a Maroon Society
sAll societies possess and cherish group fantasies, programs of travels through imaginary space. Although such culturally shaped flights of the imagination influence collective behavior, they are neither an acknowledged part of public discourse nor coterminous with "implicit" or "covert" culture. Two strikingly different fantasies of Suriname's Maroons reveal the main dimensions of collective fantasies
The Great Father and the Danger: Religious Cults, Material Forces, and Collective Fantasies in the World of the Surinamese Maroons
The Great Father and the Danger. Religious Cults, Material Forces, and Collective Fantasies in the World of the Surinamese Maroons
First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People. Richard PRICE
The Gaan Gadu Cult Material Forces and the Social Production of Fantasy
Lorsqu'à la fin du siecle dernier la ruée vers l'or modifia les rapports de production au sein de la société Djuka au Suriname, un nouveau culte religieux fit son apparition. Et ce sont ceux qui contrôlaient le principal moyen de production de l'époque - le transport par bateau - qui s'avérèrent être les principaux défen seurs de ce nouveau culte: le Gaan Gadu
Affluence, deprivation and the flowering of Bush Negro religious movements
Marx's dictum that 'being determines consciousness' was trae only for as long as it takes consciousness to acquire the art of estrangement; thereafter, consciousness is on its own and can both determine or ignore being."Joseph Brodsky (1979:32) 1. Introduction During the eighteenth century, the majority of Suriname's fugitive slaves succeeded in wringing peace treaties from their former masters.Although these Maroons, or Bush Negroes, as they pre…
Female religious responses to male prosperity in turn-of-the-century Bush Negro societies
At the end of the nineteenth century, a drastic change occurred in gender relations in Suriname's Bus Negro societie . Men massively l ft the tribal are s for more lucrative pursuits in th expanding national economy, and often failed to perform thei share in the traditional subsisten e economy. Women were left to fend for th mselv s, in part-control of y sterda 's means of produc ion. In matrilineal and predomi antly uxoriloc l societies, Bush Ne…
Comment on Lowenthal's Review of Land Scarcity and Rural Inequality in Tanzania
The origins of the gaan gadu movement of the bush negroes of surinam
Bush Negro prophetic movements; religions of despair
In the s m d village of Sophiboeka on the upper Surinam River strange events took place.Three months earlier the village headman had died, and now the inhabitants of the village, Saramaka Bush Negroes, were interrogating his spirit in the traditional way.Two men were carrying a plank on which was fastened a smal1 packet containing tKe deceased's hair and nail parings.Like most other Bush Negroes, the Saramaka believe that the spirit of the deceas…
Agrarian Socialism in the Third World: The Tanzanian Case
Robinson Crusoe and Friday: Strength and Weakness of the Big Man Paradigm
Het geloof in wraakgeesten bindmiddel en splijtzwam van de Djuka Matri-Lineage
in het dorp Drietabbetje en werd gesubsidieerd door WOSUNA
Other: Van Isolatie naar Integratie, de Surinaamse Marrons en hun afstammelingen. Officiële documenten betreffende de Djoeka's (1845–1863). Silvia W. de Groot
Robinson Crusoe and Friday: Strength and Weakness of the Big Man Paradigm
Revenants That Cannot Be Shaken: Collective Fantasies in a Maroon Society
sAll societies possess and cherish group fantasies, programs of travels through imaginary space. Although such culturally shaped flights of the imagination influence collective behavior, they are neither an acknowledged part of public discourse nor coterminous with "implicit" or "covert" culture. Two strikingly different fantasies of Suriname's Maroons reveal the main dimensions of collective fantasies
Agrarian Socialism in the Third World: The Tanzanian Case
The Great Father and the Danger. Religious Cults, Material Forces, and Collective Fantasies in the World of the Surinamese Maroons
Affluence, deprivation and the flowering of Bush Negro religious movements
Marx's dictum that 'being determines consciousness' was trae only for as long as it takes consciousness to acquire the art of estrangement; thereafter, consciousness is on its own and can both determine or ignore being."Joseph Brodsky (1979:32) 1. Introduction During the eighteenth century, the majority of Suriname's fugitive slaves succeeded in wringing peace treaties from their former masters.Although these Maroons, or Bush Negroes, as they pre…
Bush Negro prophetic movements; religions of despair
In the s m d village of Sophiboeka on the upper Surinam River strange events took place.Three months earlier the village headman had died, and now the inhabitants of the village, Saramaka Bush Negroes, were interrogating his spirit in the traditional way.Two men were carrying a plank on which was fastened a smal1 packet containing tKe deceased's hair and nail parings.Like most other Bush Negroes, the Saramaka believe that the spirit of the deceas…
The origins of the gaan gadu movement of the bush negroes of surinam
The Gaan Gadu Cult Material Forces and the Social Production of Fantasy
Lorsqu'à la fin du siecle dernier la ruée vers l'or modifia les rapports de production au sein de la société Djuka au Suriname, un nouveau culte religieux fit son apparition. Et ce sont ceux qui contrôlaient le principal moyen de production de l'époque - le transport par bateau - qui s'avérèrent être les principaux défen seurs de ce nouveau culte: le Gaan Gadu
Het geloof in wraakgeesten bindmiddel en splijtzwam van de Djuka Matri-Lineage
in het dorp Drietabbetje en werd gesubsidieerd door WOSUNA
Through Maroon worlds: A conversation with Bonno Thoden van Velzen
This article explores some of the writings of Dutch anthropologist H.U.E. (Bonno) Thoden van Velzen on the Ndyuka Maroon peoples of Suriname and Guyana, focusing particularly on the author’s description of the role of gods, spirits, and other non-human beings in Maroon socialities and worlds. The first part of the article describes Thoden van Velzen’s intellectual production, showing how his professional and political commitments to the Ndyuka le…
Female religious responses to male prosperity in turn-of-the-century Bush Negro societies
At the end of the nineteenth century, a drastic change occurred in gender relations in Suriname's Bus Negro societie . Men massively l ft the tribal are s for more lucrative pursuits in th expanding national economy, and often failed to perform thei share in the traditional subsisten e economy. Women were left to fend for th mselv s, in part-control of y sterda 's means of produc ion. In matrilineal and predomi antly uxoriloc l societies, Bush Ne…
Other: Van Isolatie naar Integratie, de Surinaamse Marrons en hun afstammelingen. Officiële documenten betreffende de Djoeka's (1845–1863). Silvia W. de Groot
Het geloof in wraakgeesten bindmiddel en splijtzwam van de Djuka Matri-Lineage
in het dorp Drietabbetje en werd gesubsidieerd door WOSUNA
Robinson Crusoe and Friday: Strength and Weakness of the Big Man Paradigm
Agrarian Socialism in the Third World: The Tanzanian Case
Bush Negro prophetic movements; religions of despair
In the s m d village of Sophiboeka on the upper Surinam River strange events took place.Three months earlier the village headman had died, and now the inhabitants of the village, Saramaka Bush Negroes, were interrogating his spirit in the traditional way.Two men were carrying a plank on which was fastened a smal1 packet containing tKe deceased's hair and nail parings.Like most other Bush Negroes, the Saramaka believe that the spirit of the deceas…
Comment on Lowenthal's Review of Land Scarcity and Rural Inequality in Tanzania
The origins of the gaan gadu movement of the bush negroes of surinam
Female religious responses to male prosperity in turn-of-the-century Bush Negro societies
At the end of the nineteenth century, a drastic change occurred in gender relations in Suriname's Bus Negro societie . Men massively l ft the tribal are s for more lucrative pursuits in th expanding national economy, and often failed to perform thei share in the traditional subsisten e economy. Women were left to fend for th mselv s, in part-control of y sterda 's means of produc ion. In matrilineal and predomi antly uxoriloc l societies, Bush Ne…
Affluence, deprivation and the flowering of Bush Negro religious movements
Marx's dictum that 'being determines consciousness' was trae only for as long as it takes consciousness to acquire the art of estrangement; thereafter, consciousness is on its own and can both determine or ignore being."Joseph Brodsky (1979:32) 1. Introduction During the eighteenth century, the majority of Suriname's fugitive slaves succeeded in wringing peace treaties from their former masters.Although these Maroons, or Bush Negroes, as they pre…
First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People. Richard PRICE
The Gaan Gadu Cult Material Forces and the Social Production of Fantasy
Lorsqu'à la fin du siecle dernier la ruée vers l'or modifia les rapports de production au sein de la société Djuka au Suriname, un nouveau culte religieux fit son apparition. Et ce sont ceux qui contrôlaient le principal moyen de production de l'époque - le transport par bateau - qui s'avérèrent être les principaux défen seurs de ce nouveau culte: le Gaan Gadu
The Great Father and the Danger: Religious Cults, Material Forces, and Collective Fantasies in the World of the Surinamese Maroons
The Great Father and the Danger. Religious Cults, Material Forces, and Collective Fantasies in the World of the Surinamese Maroons
Revenants That Cannot Be Shaken: Collective Fantasies in a Maroon Society
sAll societies possess and cherish group fantasies, programs of travels through imaginary space. Although such culturally shaped flights of the imagination influence collective behavior, they are neither an acknowledged part of public discourse nor coterminous with "implicit" or "covert" culture. Two strikingly different fantasies of Suriname's Maroons reveal the main dimensions of collective fantasies
Een zwarte vrijstaat in Suriname: De Okaanse samenleving in de achttiende eeuw
Waar plantages en slaven zijn, vluchten slaven van plantages. Al vrij snel na de stichting van de plantagekolonie Suriname (1651) ontsnapten Afrikaanse slaven om een menswaardig bestaan op te bouwen in het immense regenwoud. Zij vestigden zich in het labyrint van kreken en rivieren en voerden vandaar een felle guerrilla tegen de blanke planters. Een van deze groepen Marrons, zoals de gevluchte slaven in de literatuur bekend staan, is de Okanisi.E…
Through Maroon worlds: A conversation with Bonno Thoden van Velzen
This article explores some of the writings of Dutch anthropologist H.U.E. (Bonno) Thoden van Velzen on the Ndyuka Maroon peoples of Suriname and Guyana, focusing particularly on the author’s description of the role of gods, spirits, and other non-human beings in Maroon socialities and worlds. The first part of the article describes Thoden van Velzen’s intellectual production, showing how his professional and political commitments to the Ndyuka le…
Prophets of Doom: A History of the Okanisi Maroons in Suriname
Once the Maroons escaped from slavery and established their communities in the remote interior of Suriname, attention shifted from military threat to internal danger. As they faced these dangers in an unknown rainforest, they sought refuge in prophetic movements directed by charismatic religious leaders. This book charts the history of Okanisi religious movements from their escape to the present day. It is based on sixty years of fieldwork by the…
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