The Bakru Speaks Money-Making Demons and Racial Stereotypes in Guyana and Suriname

被引:3
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作者
Pires, Rogerio Brittes W. [1 ]
Strange, Stuart Earle [2 ]
Mello, Marcelo Moura [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Fed Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
[2] Yale NUS Coll, Singapore, Singapore
[3] Univ Fed Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil
来源
NWIG-NEW WEST INDIAN GUIDE-NIEUWE WEST-INDISCHE GIDS | 2018年 / 92卷 / 1-2期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Suriname; Guyana; spirits; money; capitalism; ethnic difference; ANTHROPOLOGY; LIMITS;
D O I
10.1163/22134360-09201001
中图分类号
K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ;
摘要
Throughout the Guianas, people of all ethnicities fear one particular kind of demonic spirit. Called baccoo in Guyana, bakru in coastal Suriname, and bakulu or bakuu among Saamaka and Ndyuka Maroons in the interior, these demons offer personal wealth in exchange for human life. Based on multisited ethnography in Guyana and Suriname, this paper analyzes converging and diverging conceptions of the "same" spirit among several Afro- and Indo-Guianese populations. We argue that transformations in how people conceptualize bakulu reveal how supposedly radical moral differences are constructed within and between populations in the multi-ethnic Caribbean. More than figurative projections of monetized inequality or racial and ethnic prejudices, baccoo actively mediate how people throughout the Guianas think about and experience the everyday conduct of economic and racial relations.
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