Prophets of Doom

Building on sixty years of fieldwork, archival research and oral accounts, this book presents the history of prophetic and anti-witchcraft movements among the Okanisi of Suriname from their escape from slavery to the present day.

About the author

H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen (1933-2020) was Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University and the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research. Among his publications are The Great Father and the Danger (KITLV,1988), In the Shadow of the Oracle (Waveland Press, 2004) and Een Zwarte Vrijstaat in Suriname: De Okaanse Samenleving in de 19e en 20e eeuw (Brill, 2013) with W. van Wetering.

Product details

• Authors: H U E Thoden van Velzen, H. U. E. Thoden Van Velzen, H U E Thoden van Velzen
• Assisted by: Ellen Klinkers (Editor)
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9789004516366
• ISBN: 978-90-04-51636-6
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 771 g
• Series: Studies in Global Slavery
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories