The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start
Anthropological iconoclasts Richard and Sally Price have spent the
last two decades not only creating an unparalleled oeuvre of
scholarship in several areas of anthropology but also unabashedly
calling foul on any untenable or patronizing concepts of
"us" and "them," "primitive" and
"modern," that cross their path. For this pamphlet, they
crack the yellowing diaries kept by Melville and Frances Herskovits
on their famous 1920s expedition deep into the South American
jungle, exposing--with their trademark combination of deadpan wit
and theoretical rigor--the origins of the field that has come to be
known as African diaspora studies.
