In this methodological/poetical exercise, the author attempts a mind-game in which he reads through the primary and secondary sources on the great seventeenth-century Brazilian quilombo of Palmares, drawing on his knowledge of Maroon societies elsewhere in the Americas, in order to imagine the institutions of that quilombo from their own, rather than outside observers’, perspectives. Using oral testimonies from the descendants of Maroons in Suriname, and comparing them to outsiders’ views of those societies as recorded in archives, he tries to better evoke the cultural institutions that would have existed in Palmares. Dans cet essai, à la fois méthodolgique et poétique, l’auteur essaie de brosser un portrait, spéculatif mais informé, de Pal...
In this master's thesis, I analyze travel writing about Suriname, from early European colonization u...
In Amazonia: A Natural History. Hugh Raffles. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiii + 30...
This paper zooms in on the notion of coloniality with a view to understanding how it is rehearsed in...
The goal of the current paper is to analyze several interpretations made by analysts with the human ...
In this article the reader is invited to revisit the multiple narratives on Palmares, the best known...
Neste artigo, o leitor é convidado a palmilhar, mais uma vez, pelos caminhos e os percalços narrativ...
Quilombo tells the story of Palmares, a colony of mostly runaway slaves, organized in the state of A...
As obras literárias como fonte para a pesquisa histórica cada vez mais têm ganhado a atenção de hist...
This article analyzes cartographic representations of Palmares, the largest and longest-lived maroon...
In recent years, historical archaeologists have become increasingly interested in exploring how to u...
The paper deals with the seventeenth century maroon in the Northeast of Brazil, Palmares. The archae...
O longo poema narrativo Song for Anninho (1981), da escritora negra Gayl Jones (Estados Unidos), int...
As the Maroons escaped from enslavement into unknown and inaccessible environments, they relied on t...
In Brazil, the largest escaped slave community in the Americas incorporated multiple settlements int...
In this dissertation I argue that the historical lived experience of the maroon allows us to read tw...
In this master's thesis, I analyze travel writing about Suriname, from early European colonization u...
In Amazonia: A Natural History. Hugh Raffles. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiii + 30...
This paper zooms in on the notion of coloniality with a view to understanding how it is rehearsed in...
The goal of the current paper is to analyze several interpretations made by analysts with the human ...
In this article the reader is invited to revisit the multiple narratives on Palmares, the best known...
Neste artigo, o leitor é convidado a palmilhar, mais uma vez, pelos caminhos e os percalços narrativ...
Quilombo tells the story of Palmares, a colony of mostly runaway slaves, organized in the state of A...
As obras literárias como fonte para a pesquisa histórica cada vez mais têm ganhado a atenção de hist...
This article analyzes cartographic representations of Palmares, the largest and longest-lived maroon...
In recent years, historical archaeologists have become increasingly interested in exploring how to u...
The paper deals with the seventeenth century maroon in the Northeast of Brazil, Palmares. The archae...
O longo poema narrativo Song for Anninho (1981), da escritora negra Gayl Jones (Estados Unidos), int...
As the Maroons escaped from enslavement into unknown and inaccessible environments, they relied on t...
In Brazil, the largest escaped slave community in the Americas incorporated multiple settlements int...
In this dissertation I argue that the historical lived experience of the maroon allows us to read tw...
In this master's thesis, I analyze travel writing about Suriname, from early European colonization u...
In Amazonia: A Natural History. Hugh Raffles. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiii + 30...
This paper zooms in on the notion of coloniality with a view to understanding how it is rehearsed in...