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Summary Of Richard Prices Rainforest Warriors
Richard Prices’ Rainforest Warriors is an ethnography that is incredibly interesting; its contents discuss the history, politics, and overall well being of the Saramaccan people of the South American nation of Suriname. Suriname, being first colonized by English and Dutch settlers, was a nation used for the establishment of sugar and timber plantations for direct export to Europe. The first three chapters are fascinating to say the least, as they detail the history of runaway African slaves who made the forests of the Amazon their home much like the runaway slaves forcibly brought to Brazil and their subsequent establishments of the Quilmbo Kingdoms. However, unlike their brazilin brethren, Price mentions how the Saramaccans did not mix with
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