Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the worlds of the living and the dead, and the visible and invisible. With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship, "Travels with Tooy" recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals. Included...
Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encou...
Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the worlds of the living and the dead, and the visible and invisible. With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship, "Travels with Tooy" recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals. Included...
Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encou...
A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. Each page of the book presents a transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their eighteenth-century ancestors along with commentary from Price that places their accounts into a broader historical context.
A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at al...
An election day massacre in colonial Martinique. A mad artist who lives in a cave. A satirical wooden bust of a white colonel. The artist s banishment to the Devil s Island penal colony for impertinence. And a young anthropologist who arrives in Martinique in 1962, on the eve of massive modernization.
In a stunning combination of scholarship and storytelling, the award-winning anthropologist Richard Price draws on long-term ethnography, archival documents, cinema and street theater, and Caribbean fiction and poetry to explore how one generation s powerful historical metaphors could so...
An election day massacre in colonial Martinique. A mad artist who lives in a cave. A satirical wooden bust of a white colonel. The artist s banishment...
..". engrossing, nuanced, productively and honestly critical in the best sense of the term." Richard Bauman
After recounting their experiences as cultural mediators between African American Maroons from the Suriname rain forest and U.S. festival-goers on the Washington Mall, the authors reflect on how folklorists, anthropologists, and museum curators represent others, as well as themselves."
..". engrossing, nuanced, productively and honestly critical in the best sense of the term." Richard Bauman
