Cover image: Lodewijk Schmidt (photo compilation by Renzo Duin, of (i) a photograph of Lodewijk Schmidt [source: photo album of Claudius H. de Goeje, 1937. Collection National Museum van Wereldculturen. Coll.no.RV-A117-2] and (ii) a photograph of the Upper Maroni River [photo by Renzo Duin, January 22, 2013]
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Duin, Renzo, author. | Schmidt, Lodewijk Juliaan, 1898–1992. Verslag van drie reizen naar de Bovenlandsche Indianen. English.
Title: The humble ethnographer : Lodewijk Schmidt’s accounts from Three voyages in Amazonian Guiana / by Renzo Duin.
Other titles: Incidents of Travel in the Eastern Guiana Highlands (1940–1942)
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. | Series: Caribbean Series, 0921–9781 ; volume 38 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: ”Schmidt’s three mid-twentieth-century ethnographic accounts tell the tragic story of Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Guiana Highlands (northern Brazil, and southern Suriname and French Guiana). As current ecological disasters, incurred by neocolonial, neoliberal and geopolitical practices, threaten to completely destroy the Amazonian forests that Schmidt describes, his meticulous accounts underscore the predetermined tragedy that is the result of the European and later North-American presence in present-day Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil.” -- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020011391 (print) | LCCN 2020011392 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004429710 (Hardback : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004430495 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Indians of South America--Guiana. | Ethnology--Guiana. | Schmidt, Lodewijk Juliaan, 1898-1992. | Anthropologists--Surinam--Biography.
Classification: LCC F2355 .D85 2020 (print) | LCC F2355 (ebook) | DDC 988.2092 [B]--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011391
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011392
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ISSN 0921-9781
ISBN 978-90-04-42971-0 (hardback)
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