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  • Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam

    Transcribed for the First Time From the Original 1790 Manuscript

    When John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition "full of lies and nonsense"—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid ... Leer más

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  • Stedman's Surinam

    Life in an Eighteeth-Century Slave Society

    The famed account of 18th-century slavery in South America, "made more readable by moderate editorial changes . . . A well-accomplished abridgment" ( Colonial Latin American Historical Review).This abridgment of Richard and Sally Price's acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on John Gabriel Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the ... Leer más

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  • Co-wives and Calabashes

    de Sally Price ...
    Series series Women And Culture Series
    A fascinating exploration into the world of the Saramaka Maroons of the Suriname rain forest, Co-wives and Calabashes examines the status of women in this polygynous and matrilineal society as reflected in its social structure and in its art. The product of seventeen years of research, the book draws upon a rich variety of resources — from bawdy popular songs to dusty museum artifacts, from ... Leer más

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  • Saamaka Dreaming

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Crafting Gender

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    This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art by women in Latin America has received little sustained attention. Crafting Gender begins to redress this gap ... Leer más

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  • Equatoria

    A postmodern romp through the rain forest, Equatoria is both travelogue and cultural critique. On the right-hand pages, the Prices chronicle their 1990 artifact-collecting expedition up the rivers of French Guiana, and on the left, stage an accompanying sideshow that enlists the help of Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Alex Haley, James Clifford, Eric Hobsbawn, Germaine Greer ... Leer más

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  • Maroons in Guyane

    Past, Present, Future

    Series Libro 42 - Race in the Atlantic World
    For more than four centuries, communities of maroons (men and women who escaped slavery) dotted the fringes of plantation America, from Brazil through the Caribbean to the United States. Today their descendants still form semi-independent enclaves—in Jamaica, Brazil, Colombia, Belize, Suriname, Guyane, and elsewhere—remaining proud of their maroon origins and, in some cases, faithful to unique ... Leer más

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  • Arts primitifs, regards civilisés

    Dans ce livre, Sally Price, ethnologue et historienne de l'art, met à plat le statut que revêt l'art dit "primitif" aux yeux de la majorité des publics "éclairés" de l'Europe occidentale et des Etats-Unis. Son étude magistrale, introduite par Federico Zeri puis par Maurice Godelier, s'appuie sur une enquête menée auprès de conservateurs de grands musées, de collectionneurs privés, de marchands d ... Leer más

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  • The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World

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