Richly illustrated with dozens of photographs, engravings and plans, and with an impressive body of footnotes, this work condenses fifteen years of archaeological excavations. In twenty-two chapters its authors explore the Loyola house and plantation as it was in the 18th-century: its men (slaves and Jesuits), farming and craft activities,...

The 18th-century in French Guiana as seen through the story of two brothers whose paths cross in the days before the first abolition of slavery in the region of the Approuague.

Written by a team of researchers at the IRD, Langues de Guyane explores the languages classified as "languages of France" that are spoken in French Guiana. Grouped together into Amerindian languages, Creole images, and Asiatic languages, their history and lexical and grammatical characteristics tell us a lot about the peoples...

This book of high-quality early twentieth-century photographs takes the reader on a fabulous journey to the past of Surinam.

Following on from Balades en Guyane, Philippe Boré has now updated his guide to Paramaribo and the surrounding area. It suggests new ideas for walks and bike rides as well as a host of practical and cultural information about Surinam.

The anthropologist Isabelle Hidair places the Cayenne Carnival in the larger context of Creole society and its evolution. Moving from the origins of the carnival in Europe to its current form in Cayenne, she goes over the symbolic figures of the carnival and analyses them the light of the society...

In this book the geographer Frédéric Piantoni explores migration and population movement as factors in the appropriation of the land of French Guiana. He shows how the planned migrations of the colonial period were used by France to gain possession of the territory. He then turns his attention to the...

Tembe sculptures and paintings might be primarily craftwork but they are also nevertheless genuine works of art and a magnificent way of appropriating the trees of the French Guianese forest. The reader is able to admire the superb photos of combs, pirogues, paddles, and the painted fronts of buildings (to...

The goal of this little book is to help people better understand the Maroons of French Guiana, also called the “Bushinenge”. Written in clear scientific language and amply illustrated with photos and rare documents, it plunges the reader into the history, customs, culture, and arts of the Aluku, Ndyuka, Paramaka,...