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Escrevendo e Criando a Diferença: Os Maroon Ndyuka e os usos da arte no Cottica (Suriname)
Author(s) -
Cunha Olivia Gomes
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of latin american and caribbean anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.624
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1935-4940
pISSN - 1935-4932
DOI - 10.1111/jlca.12431
Subject(s) - maroon , context (archaeology) , variety (cybernetics) , art , humanities , ethnology , history , visual arts , archaeology , computer science , artificial intelligence
In describing specialized readings about the discovery of a “Ndyuka script” in the last century, the article seeks to analyze procedures that provide context and assumptions of continuity that limits our understanding of the use of Afaka signs in the works of Maroon artists, in particular, of Marcel Pinas as well as young people in Moengo (Suriname). If, for the specialists, the invention of a script was the result of contact of literate Ndyukas with Christianity, new uses of the Afaka have left behind the notebooks and these attempts of translation. In the Cottica landscape and the current forms of art expression, a variety of the uses of Afaka signs have gained new colors and spatial dimensions, and are associated to the modes of existence of Cottica Ndyuka in the region in the post–civil war (1986–1992). [Maroons, Cottica Ndyuka, Suriname, Escrita, Art, Caribbean, Afaka]