TY - BOOK ID - 138274924 TI - Maroons in Guyane AU - Price, Richard AU - Price, Sally PY - 2022 SN - 0820361569 9780820361567 9780820362458 082036245X 9780820360867 0820360864 PB - Athens DB - UniCat KW - Maroons KW - History. KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138274924 AB - "For more than four centuries, the communities of maroons (men and women who escaped from slavery) dotted the fringes of plantation America, from Brazil through the Caribbean to the United States. Today their descendants still form semi-independent enclaves-in Jamaica, Brazil, Colombia, Belize, Suriname, Guyane, and elsewhere-remaining proud of their maroon origins and, in some cases, faithful to unique cultural traditions forged during the earliest days of Afro-American history. In 1986, expelled by the military regime of Suriname, the Prices turned to neighboring Guyane (French Guiana), where thousands of Maroons were taking refuge from the Suriname civil war. Over the next fifteen years, their conversations with local people convinced them of the need to replace the pervasive stereotypes about Maroons in Guyane with accurate information. In 2003, Les Marrons became a local best-seller. In 2020, after many further visits, the Prices wrote a new edition taking into account the many rapid changes. Maroons in Guyane reviews the history of the four Maroon peoples in Guyane, explains how these groups differ from one another, and analyzes their current situations in the bustling, multicultural world of this far-flung outpost of the French Republic. A gallery of the magnificent arts of the Maroons completes the volume"-- ER -