Brother Mambo
Finding Africa in the Amazon
by J.D. Lenoir with Phil Ceder (KutuKutu)
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Pub Date 10 Feb 2022 | Archive Date 30 Mar 2022
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Description
Brother Mambo is a memoir of an anthropology graduate student who set out to document African cultural influences in the Guianas of South America. His initial study plan blocked by local immigration officials, he followed a hummingbird and other oracles to an Amazonian river and the Pamakans, Africans who had escaped slave plantations in Suriname to rebuild a society in the rainforest.
Living among the Pamakans more than three years, he learned, with the help and friendship of young KutuKutu, how the Pamakans think and act. He describes their brilliant concepts of life and death, and the impact of missionaries and the market economy on their villages.
His initial loneliness in the close, suspicious, and very foreign environment, led to his gradual acceptance as one of them.
Lenoir ultimately married a Pamakan woman and started a family. They work is a continuing collaboration with KutuKutu, the Pamakan teenager who became a steadfast confidant the first day the author arrived at their village.
A Note From the Publisher
KutuKutu (Phil Ceder) was born in Langatabiki in 1956. He left Suriname in 1983 and drives a long-distance truck for the Dutch postal service.
Advance Praise
“Brother Mambo is the best introduction yet to how anthropology is born in the field – its struggles, its joys, its strengths, its limits, and what it can and can not know.” –Gerald Sider, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, PhD Program in Anthropology
“This is an excellent book for students and practitioners of anthropology, as well as for the intelligent reading public.” –Edward C. Green, PhD, former Senior Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health
“Brother Mambo is an amazing adventure that leads to an isolated group of Africans who as fugitive slaves reconstituted a society in the rainforest of Suriname.” –Dr. Charles W. Kegley, past President of the International Studies Association
“Lenoir and KutuKutu manage to cover delicate and complex subjects without lecturing or preaching. Their sense of humor, courage and curiousness kept me turning pages and wanting to know more.” –Ann Shortt, PhD, Superintendent, Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781684338771 |
| PRICE | US$4.99 (USD) |
