Homicide rates among the Gebusi of lowland New Guinea are among the highest yet
reported. This paper characterizes and empirically tests Gebusi homicide data against the …

This is a fascinating account of High God cults and associated religious movements among
the Ndyuka from the later half of the nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Ndyuka religion is …

De D juka of Aukaners zijn één van de vijf Bosnegerstammen van Suriname; zij wonen
verspreid over zes woongebieden in het oostelijk en centrale deel van dit land. Het oudste …

Norbert Elias (Uber den Prozess der Zivilisation. Soziogenetische und Psychogenetische
Untersuchungen [On the Process of Civilization: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Research], 2 …

An investigation of the continuing preoccupation with witchcraft & black magic in the modern
world, based on an analysis of a 25-year field study reported by HUE Thoden van Velzen & …

Much work has recently been done in the fields of authority and power structures, conflict,
factions, patronage, brokerage and so forth; studies which we usually refer to as political …

In this article, Thoden van Velzen, uses the Ndyuka data to critique Norbert Elias's theory
regarding the relationship between centralized authority and civilization. According to Elias, the …

This article is about the ambivalency with which Ndyuka historians regard leaders of the past.
On the one hand, Ndyuka leaders are celebrated for leading both the flight to freedom and …

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 …

February, 1892: In the small village of Sophiboeka on the upper Surinam River strange events
took place. Three months earlier the village head man had died, and now the inhabitants …