People in between: the Matawai Maroons of Suriname

(1981)–Chris de Beet, Miriam Sterman– rechtenstatus

Tables, Figures and Maps

Tables

Part I
1	Individual mobility of lineage members and their spouses of the village of Boslanti	60
2	Composition of tribal households of the four upstream villages	65
3	Matawai local endogamy	100
4	Conjugal residence	102
5a	Marital status of women in ten upstream villages according to age	122
5b	Marital status of men in ten upstream villages according to age	122
5c	Marital status of women in seven downstream villages according to age	123
5d	Marital status of men in seven downstream villages according to age	123
6	Present marital status, cumulative marital experience, and divorce ratios: down and upriver Matawai	125
7	Male and Female Sponsorship in Matawai and Saramaka society	136
8	Sponsorship and kinship	137
9	Distribution of children raised in their own village, in other villages and in the coastal area	139
10	Fosterage of children of married and divorced mothers	140
11	Fosterage related to marital status of mothers	142
12	Voluntary and crisis fosterage	144
13	Fosterage for women with and without dependent children	145

Part II
1	Origin of supernatural ancestor (neseki) in mother's and father's kin group	292

Part III
1	Matawai population figures 1775	372
2	Matawai population figures 1783	373
3	Matawai population figures 1830-1974	374

4	The total Matawai population of 17 villages at January 1, 1974 compared with the composition of the population of Suriname 1963 (non tribal population)	376
5	Age Specific Mortality Rates calculated on the base of all deaths in the period 1962-1974	377
6	Age at which the first child is born for males and females from the upstream area	381
7	Cohort fertility of Matawai women (calculations based on surviving women at January 1, 1974)	392
8	Childless upriver males and females born before 1940 and the number of their marital partners	394
9	Development of child mortality during the period 1914-1973	396
10	Place of birth of children of migrant mothers according to the age of mother (born before and after January 1, 1941)	399
11	Seasonal variation in birth before and after 1960	405
12	The population of Paramaribo and the Suriname district	416
13	Main motives for moves to the coastal area of adult male population from the upstream area. Data collected in the period 1973-74	419
14	Residence of men and women from Libasei 1 according to age. For migrants the time spent in the tribal villages and for non-migrants the time spent in the coastal area during the years 1973 and 1974	423
15	Money income for 141 adult males in four upriver villages over a two year period	426
16	Migrancy of adults and children from libasei and bausei	433
17	Migration and sex ratio in four Matawai areas	433
18	Sex ratios, migration and marital status	434
19	Migration and marital status of all Matawai adults originating from 17 villages according to sex, area of origin and present place of residence (January 1, 1974)	435

Part IV

1	Residence of Matawai migrants in residential zones	445
2	Clustering of Matawai migrants from up- and downriver in residential zones around Paramaribo	446
3	Migration of adults of down- and upriver to Paramaribo and the outskirts	448
4	Employment of Matawai migrant males in the coastal area	452
5	Participation of Matawai in ceremonies in town	460
6	Participation in bar cliques of Matawai men from up- and downriver on eight Saturday evenings over the last few months of 1974	462
7	Percentages of out-marrying men and women of the tribal and migrant population of the down and upriver areas	464
8	Extra-tribal marriages of Matawai males and females for first marriages, all marriages and for the latest and present marriages	465
9	Marriage relations of tribal and migrant Matawai with non-Matawai (present and latest relation), according to ethnic affiliation	467

Figures

Introduction
1	Monthly rainfall for Paramaribo and Boslanti	7
2	Male and female absenteeism of adults of four upriver villages (migrants excluded) during the years 1973 and 1974	17

Part I

1	Rivalry about the fulfillment of political functions between two matri-segments	38
2	Matrilineal descendants of an upriver woman who remained behind downriver	52
3	Layout of an upriver village inhabited by members of one matrilineage	56
4	Distant kin (doo famii) traced by a man of Boslanti	73
5	Change of terms of address	75
6	Mean number of own children, compared to mean number of children raised by women according to their age	145
7	Actual pattern and simulated model of fostering and raising chances for women according to age	146

Part II

1	The succession of gaamanship among the Matawai	204

Part III

1	Matawai population growth	374
2	Age Specific Fertility Rates of Matawai	378
3	Age and birth of first child	381
4	Age differences of marital partners (169 marriages in the upriver area)	383
5	Compilation of marital histories (a) based on 164 cases from four upriver villages (L 1) and (b) based on 164 cases from six upriver villages (L 2)	386
6	Distribution of birth intervals according to length	388
7	Cumulative fertility of the cohorts -1910, 1910-1920, 1921-1930, 1931-1940, 1941-1950, 1951-1958 for up- and downriver	- (a)389 (b)390 (c)391
8	Female and male sterility of the population of 10 upstream villages	393
9	Development of child mortality during the period 1914-1973	396
10	Seasonality of male absenteeism and conception	406
11	Seasonality of rainfall and conception	408
12	Seasonality of births of mothers with stable reproductive ability and of mothers with less stable reproductive ability	412
13	Factors affecting seasonal variation in births	414
14a	Population distribution of migrants compared with the total population from Libasei 1	428
14b	Population distribution of migrants compared with the total population from Libasei 2	429

14c	Population distribution of migrants compared with the total population from Bausei 1	430
14d	Population distribution of migrants compared with the total population from Bausei 2	431
14e	Population distribution of migrants compared with the total Matawai population	432

Part IV

1	The process of clustering of kinsmen in a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Paramaribo.	450

Maps

Introduction

1	Distribution of the Bush Negro tribes in Suriname	6
2	Location of Matawai villages	7

Part I

1	Former Matawai villages	44
2	Descent links between up- and downriver villages	53

Part IV
1	Residential zones of Matawai migrants in and around Paramaribo	445