LEADER 04332nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910788578203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-4300-5 010 $a1-283-89027-5 010 $a0-8122-0372-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203721 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064679 035 $a(OCoLC)794700611 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641604 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000811710 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12349370 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811710 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10850755 035 $a(PQKB)11134060 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606630 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11973793 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606630 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581828 035 $a(PQKB)11338244 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8250 035 $a(DE-B1597)449172 035 $a(OCoLC)1013946417 035 $a(OCoLC)979684526 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203721 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441769 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641604 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420277 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441769 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064679 100 $a20100604d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRainforest warriors$b[electronic resource] $ehuman rights on trial /$fRichard Price 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 225 0 $aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 225 0$aPennsylvania studies in human rights 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2137-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aAfricans discover America -- Earth, water, sky -- Sovereignty and territory -- Resistance redux -- Judgment day -- American dreams. 330 $aRainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life-part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990's, its government began awarding extensive logging and mining concessions to multinational companies from China, Indonesia, Canada, and elsewhere. Saramaka Maroons, the descendants of self-liberated African slaves who had lived in that rainforest for more than 300 years, resisted, bringing their complaints to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2008, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its landmark judgment in their favor, their efforts to protect their threatened rainforest were thrust into the international spotlight. Two leaders of the struggle to protect their way of life, Saramaka Headcaptain Wazen Eduards and Saramaka law student Hugo Jabini, were awarded the Goldman Prize for the Environment (often referred to as the environmental Nobel Prize), under the banner of "A New Precedent for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples." Anthropologist Richard Price, who has worked with Saramakas for more than forty years and who participated actively in this struggle, tells the gripping story of how Saramakas harnessed international human rights law to win control of their own piece of the Amazonian forest and guarantee their cultural survival. 606 $aSaramacca (Surinamese people)$xCivil rights 606 $aSaramacca (Surinamese people)$xLegal status, laws, etc 606 $aHuman rights$zSuriname 610 $aAF. 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aHuman Rights. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aLinguistics. 615 0$aSaramacca (Surinamese people)$xCivil rights. 615 0$aSaramacca (Surinamese people)$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aHuman rights 676 $a323.1196 700 $aPrice$b Richard$f1941-$0790900 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788578203321 996 $aRainforest warriors$93751917 997 $aUNINA