History and Ethnic Relations Emergence of the Nation. The five archipelagoès were joined into a new national entity by the gradual process of French conquest and annexation, beginning with Tahiti in 1843 and ending with the annexation of the Austral group in 1900. French administration and ...
The investigation focuses on the varieties of the language called Businenge(e) Tongo locally or Eastern Maroon Creoles spoken by Maroon populations living in French Guiana and Suriname. We first examine the different terms used to refer to whiteness, such as bakaa, wetiman and poyte...
Lianas of the Guianas: A Fieldguide to Woody Climbers in the Tropical Forests of Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana Between 1998 and 2001 the deaths of 16 Surinamese children were recorded along the Maroni River, which forms the border between Suriname and French Guyana... B Hoffman - Inside...
This discussion of French Antilles and Guiana cover the following: the people geography history government political conditions economy and relations with the US. In 1983 the population totaled 303000 with an annual growth rate of 0.09%. The infant mortality rate (1981) was 12.6/1000 and life exp...
Malaria is a major health issue in French Guiana. Amerindian communities remain the most affected. A previous study in Camopi highlighted the predominant role of environmental factors in the occurrence of malaria. However, all parameters involved in the transmission were not clearly identified. A new...
In French Guiana, Joseph Photius, a war-disabled person living in Cayenne, pointed out “the injustice and insult done to the wounded of the Colonies, particularly in French Guiana” because of the absence of the application of the law of 5 August 1920, and asked to benefit from a loan ...
Attention to French colonialism would be an opportunity for reconsidering the right to the land of Black and Indigenous people in overseas départements and territories such as New Caledonia, La Réunion, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique (Palisse and Davy 2018), while also fostering a ...
there has been no systematic effort to put the evolution of the burden of disease in perspective in this singular territory. French Guiana is on the South American continent, and health outcomes partly result from the ecosystem of pathogens, the environment, the cultures, and the ethnic and gene...
French Guiana, regardless of the type of diabetes encountered. The mean VD in this population was around 27.98 ng/mL. VD deficiency is more frequent in darker-skinned ethnic groups. This has also been shown in other studies in the Caribbean, notably in Guadeloupe [5,6]. Indeed, African-...