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Amérindiens du Sinnamary (Guyane), Archéologie en forêt
équatoriale: “Cet ouvrage livre
les premiers résultats des recherches sur les occupations
amérindiennes du bassin du Sinnamary (1660-220 BP), menées à
l'occasion de la construction par Electricité de France du
barrage de Petit Saut (Guyane française)…”/ “this work
introduces the initial results of research at site occupied
by Native Americans in the Sinnamary basin (1660-220 BP),
carried out at the time of the construction of the Petit
Saut dam by Electricité de France in French Guyana. A
methodological approach pertaining to the tropical sylvan
and riparian milieu is followed by a study of the open-air
sites, and a commentary focusing on the phenomenon of terra
preta and palaeolithic fires. For the first time, a
typological framework and a vocabulary are proposed for
reference to lithic series and polishing-tool sites. This
work also includes a study of ceramics using two
complementary approaches : determination of place of
manufacture based on the chemical make-up of the pastes
employed, and codification of the forms and motifs of the
22,000 objects registered. Following up on the publication
devoted to the colonial period in this region (dAf 60), this
volume makes a signifiant contribution to the renewal of
historiographical work on the Guyana plateau”.
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"Le
bouillon d'awara (Awara Soup)": A
documentary set in a French Guyanese village, centred on the
making of this soup, a symbolic metaphor for the mixture of
peoples in what the promoters argue is one of the most
cosmopolitan places on the planet-"We meet descendants of
indigenous Galibi Indians, of Bushnegroes who escaped
slavery in the jungles, of mixed race Creoles who remained
in the French towns and of Javanese contract rice laborers,
as well as more recent immigrants, Taki Taki-speaking
refugees from political strife in next-door Surinam,
Brazilian migrant workers and Hmong farmers resettled after
the Vietnam war…"
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“Du ‘Capitaine’ au ‘chef coutumier’ chez les Kali'na”, by
Gérard Collomb, Revue Ethnologie Française, Numéro 1999/4:
“The article tries to determine
what the Guyanese Amerindians Kali'na have invested since
these last ten years under the political category they first
termed ‘Capitaine’, then ‘Chef coutumier’. Both notions have
in common that they only partially account for the Kali'na
political system. But they enable to think and articulate
two dissimilar representations of politics. The substitution
of a word for another and the present efforts made by
various actors to validate and impose or, on the contrary,
to discredit the use of the expression ‘chef coutumier’ are
associated with the history of the relations between the
Kali'na society and the global society and its institutions.
Keywords : Institution. Policy. Power. Semantics. Guyana.”
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La cérémonie de l'Omaganon: [page
in French—describing the Omaganon funerary rituals among the
Kalina/Galibi of French Guyana] “Chez les Kali'na, la
cérémonie de l'Omaganon s'inscrit dans un processus lié au
décès d'un membre de la famille et d'une manière plus large
de la communauté. Ce processus commence par la veillée
funéraire et prend fin à l'occasion de la cérémonie de
l'Epekodonon dont le principe est la levée de deuil. Ainsi,
une famille touchée par un décès observera une période de
deuil appelée Onemanon. Durant la période de l'Onemanon
(port du deuil) la famille doit impérativement respecter des
interdits comme par exemple celui de ne pas danser sur le
son du Sambula (tambour) lors des cérémonies traditionnelles…”
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Galibi do Oiapoque (French Guyana):
[site in Portuguese—information on their name, location,
demography, land tenure situation, history of migration,
festivals, material culture, subsistence, household
organization and marriage, rites of passage, this site also
includes photographs and numerous factoids—by Lux Vidal,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Instituto Socioambiental]
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La Guyane-Histoire et Population:
"Les Amérindiens répartis en six ethnies
(les Arawaks, les Palikus, les Galibis, les Wayanas ou
Roucouyennes, les Oyampis ou Wayampis, et les Emerillons).
Ils représentent environ 4 500 personnes…"
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“La palabra, el silencio y la escritura: notas sobre algunas
tribus de las Guayanas”, by Edmundo Magaña, in Revista
Chilena De Antropología, No. 12:
“En varias fuentes tempranas sobre los indios de la región
amazónica-guayanesa, particularmente en relatos de
exploradores y misioneros, se encuentran notas interesantes,
curiosas muchas veces, sobre la manera en que, de acuerdo a
los autores, las poblaciones indígenas interpretaron la
palabra escrita. No tan a menudo encontramos en esa
literatura algunas noticias sobre la conceptualización
indígena de la palabra hablada. Y sobre el silencio, como un
momento del discurso, las noticias son aún más escasas….”
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Premier forum des élus amérindiens de Guyane:
"Awala-Yalimapo, 8 décembre 2001--Même si
elle représente près de 10 % de la population de la Guyane,
la communauté amérindienne ne s'est lancée qu'assez
récemment dans le débat politique. Actuellement, une
cinquantaine d'élus siègent au sein de 11 conseils
municipaux, sur les 22 communes que compte le département.
Aucun élu aux Conseils Général et Régional. ..."
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World Wildlife Foundation Grant to a Galibi (Carib) Nature
Reserve: “STIDUNAL, the
Foundation for Sustainable Nature Management of Alusiaka, a
foundation of the Carib villages of Christiaankondre and
Langamankondre (Galibi), just south of the Galibi Nature
Reserve, received an important small grant from WWF Guianas
during a ceremony in the village on January 17th. The $6,500
USD grant will be used to promote ecotourism in the village
through the purchase of a boat to transport tourists to and
from the village and nature reserve. The area is one of the
most important nesting areas for leatherback turtles in the
world”.
This page was last
updated: Saturday, 29 July, 2006
Many thanks to CAC Editor
Gerard Collomb for his many recommended additions
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