Download or read book The Humble Ethnographer: Lodewijk Schmidt's Accounts from Three Voyages in Amazonian Guiana written by Renzo S. Duin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schmidt’s is a story that takes account of the pathological mechanisms of colonialism. Duin’s annotated translation of Lodewijk Schmidt’s ethnographic accounts forces us to reflect upon the catastrophe that is ethnocide and deforestation of the Eastern Guiana Highlands in Amazonia.