In and out of Suriname : language, mobility and identity /

This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the notion of bounded ethnicity enshrined in historical and ethnographic literature...

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Other Authors: Carlin, Eithne (Editor), Léglise, Isabelle (Editor), Migge, Bettina (Editor), Tjon Sie Fat, Paul Brendan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015
Series:Caribbean series (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)) ; v. 34.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; List of Tables and Figures; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 Looking at Language, Identity, and Mobility in Suriname; Chapter 2 Language Practices and Linguistic Ideologies in Suriname: Results from a School Survey; Chapter 3 Small-scale Gold Mining and Trans-frontier Commerce on the Lawa River; Chapter 4 Movement through Time in the Southern Guianas: Deconstructing the Amerindian Kaleidoscope; Chapter 5 Setting up Frontiers, Crossing the Border: The Making of the Kari'na Tyrewuju; Chapter 6 Mobilities into (and out of) Konomerume (Donderskamp)
  • Chapter 7 Maroons and the Communications Revolution in Suriname's InteriorChapter 8 On the Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact in Suriname: The Case of Convergence; Chapter 9 They Might as Well Be Speaking Chinese: The Changing Chinese Linguistic Situation in Suriname under New Migration; Chapter 10 The Role of Suriname in Haitian Migration to French Guiana: Identities on the Move and Border Crossings; Chapter 11 Epilogue: The Aesthetics and Politics of Multilingualism among the Saamaka; References; Index