Saamaka Dreaming

Richard Price, Sally Price (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6966-0 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

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.

When Richard and Sally Price stepped out of the canoe to begin their fieldwork with the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in 1966, they were met with a mixture of curiosity, suspicion, ambivalence, hostility, and fascination. With their gradual acceptance into the community they undertook the work that would shape their careers and influence the study of African American societies throughout the hemisphere for decades to come. In Saamaka Dreaming they look back on the experience, reflecting on a discipline and a society that are considerably different today. Drawing on thousands of pages of field notes, as well as recordings, file cards, photos, and sketches, the Prices retell and comment on the most intensive fieldwork of their careers, evoke the joys and hardships of building relationships and trust, and outline their personal adaptation to this unfamiliar universe. The book is at once a moving human story, a portrait of a remarkable society, and a thought-provoking revelation about the development of anthropology over the past half-century.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	43 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-6966-4 / 0822369664
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6966-0 / 9780822369660
Zustand	Neuware