Saamaka Dreaming
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Saamaka Dreaming

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Saamaka Dreaming

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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.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2017
ISBN
9780822372868
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1. Testing the Waters
  5. Chapter 2. On Trial
  6. Chapter 3. A Feast for the Ancestors
  7. Chapter 4. Going “Outside”
  8. Chapter 5. On Nai’s Doorstep
  9. Chapter 6. Under Kala’s House
  10. Chapter 7. The Sika
  11. Chapter 8. What Month Is It?
  12. Chapter 9. The Captain’s “Granddaughter”
  13. Chapter 10. Upriver
  14. Chapter 11. At the Ancestor Shrine
  15. Chapter 12. The Cock’s Balls
  16. Chapter 13. Nai’s Rivergod
  17. Chapter 14. Agbago’s Seagod
  18. Chapter 15. Kala’s Snakegod
  19. Chapter 16. A Touch of Madness
  20. Chapter 17. Playing for the Gods
  21. Chapter 18. A Tree Falls
  22. Chapter 19. Sickness
  23. Chapter 20. Death of a Witch
  24. Chapter 21. Chasing Ghosts
  25. Chapter 22. Death of a Child
  26. Chapter 23. Returns
  27. Chapter 24. Foto
  28. Chapter 25. Looking at Paper
  29. Chapter 26. The End of an Era
  30. Notes
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index