The eminent anthropologists Richard and Sally Price look back at their first years living among the Saamaka maroons in Suriname in the late 1960s, retelling the evolution of their personal lives and careers, relationships with the Saamaka, and the field of anthropology.
The eminent anthropologists Richard and Sally Price look back at their first years living among the Saamaka maroons in Suriname in the late 1960s, retelling the evolution of their personal lives and careers, relationships with the Saamaka, and the field of anthropology.
Richard Price taught for many years at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University and is Professor Emeritus at the College of William and Mary. His numerous prize-winning books include Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination and Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial. Sally Price has taught in the United States, France, and Brazil and is Professor Emerita at the College of William and Mary. Her studies of the place of “primitive art” in the imaginary of Western viewers include Primitive Art in Civilized Places and Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac’s Museum on the Quai Branly. The Prices have coauthored many books, including Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension.
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Preface ix 1. Testing the Waters 1 2. On Trial 13 3. A Feast for the Ancestors 28 4. Going "Outside" 34 5. On Nai's Doorstep 40 6. Under Kala's House 51 7. The Sika 58 8. What Month It It? 62 9. The Captain's "Granddaughter" 71 10. Upriver 74 11. At the Ancestor Shrine 86 12. The Cock's Balls 100 13. Nai's Rivergod 103 14. Agbago's Seagod 108 15. Kala's Snakegod 114 16. A Touch of Madness 123 17. Playing for the Gods 132 18. A Tree Falls 139 19. Sickness 144 20. Death of a Witch 155 21. Chasing Ghosts 173 22. Death of a Child 179 23. Returns 190 24. Foto 202 25. Looking at Paper 205 26. The End of an Era 215 Notes 231 Bibliography 243 Index 247
Preface ix 1. Testing the Waters 1 2. On Trial 13 3. A Feast for the Ancestors 28 4. Going "Outside" 34 5. On Nai's Doorstep 40 6. Under Kala's House 51 7. The Sika 58 8. What Month It It? 62 9. The Captain's "Granddaughter" 71 10. Upriver 74 11. At the Ancestor Shrine 86 12. The Cock's Balls 100 13. Nai's Rivergod 103 14. Agbago's Seagod 108 15. Kala's Snakegod 114 16. A Touch of Madness 123 17. Playing for the Gods 132 18. A Tree Falls 139 19. Sickness 144 20. Death of a Witch 155 21. Chasing Ghosts 173 22. Death of a Child 179 23. Returns 190 24. Foto 202 25. Looking at Paper 205 26. The End of an Era 215 Notes 231 Bibliography 243 Index 247
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