Revenants That Cannot Be Shaken: Collective Fantasies in a Maroon Society

Abstract

Abstracts All societies possess and cherish group fantasies, programs of travels through imaginary space. Although such culturally shaped flights of the imagination influence collective behavior, they are neither an acknowledged part of public discourse nor coterminous with “implicit” or “covert” culture. Two strikingly different fantasies of Suriname's Maroons reveal the main dimensions of collective fantasies.