Description
This book is the first publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, which was organised in June 2013, by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: General Impact of Slavery, Indentured Labour and Migration
1. Keynote Address There’s Nothing as Practical as a Good Theory: Free and Unfree Labour Across the Atlantic Stephen Small
2. Mapping Slavery: A New Approach in History and Memory: Exploring the Potential of Digital Maps
Dienke Hondius
3. Integration Styles in the Indentured Indian Diaspora
Chan E.S. Choenni
4. Constructing the Andean Diaspora: State-based and Immigrant-led Development Strategies
Marie D. Price
Part 2: Health and Diseases
5. Imperialist Contradictions: Health Issues and Indentured Indian Labourers
Radica Mahase
6. Health Life in Suriname
G.P. Oehlers, M.Y. Lichtveld, L.M. Brewster, M. Algoe and E.R. Irving
7. Opo Yeye – Mental Well-being and Cultural Identity of the Afro-Surinamese: A Slavery-Informed Answer to Living in the Twenty-first Century
Aminata Cairo
Part 3: Maroons and Maroon Life
8. Finding Maroon Ancestral Settlements in Suriname, South America
Cheryl White
9. From Primitives to Refugees: French Guianese Categorizations of Maroons in the Aftermath of Surinamese Civil War
Clémence Léobal
10. Governing Ndyuka Society Abroad: The Council of Kabiten and Basiya of Okanisi in The Netherlands
Ine Apapoe
11. Marooned Slaves of Esmeraldas: Survival, Autonomy and Spanish Authority, 1553-1600
Laura Moulton
List of Contributors
Index
