The Humble Ethnographer: Lodewijk Schmidt's Accounts from Three Voyages in Amazonian Guiana


Book Description

Schmidt’s is a story that takes account of the pathological mechanisms of colonialism. Duin’s annotated translation of Lodewijk Schmidt’s ethnographic accounts forces us to reflect upon the catastrophe that is ethnocide and deforestation of the Eastern Guiana Highlands in Amazonia.




The Humble Ethnographer: Lodewijk Schmidt's Accounts from Three Voyages in Amazonian Guiana


Book Description

Schmidt’s is a story that takes account of the pathological mechanisms of colonialism. Duin’s annotated translation of Lodewijk Schmidt’s ethnographic accounts forces us to reflect upon the catastrophe that is ethnocide and deforestation of the Eastern Guiana Highlands in Amazonia.