Saamaka Dreaming (Hardback)
Hardcover 272 pages English Aug 04, 2017
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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.
- Author:
- Richard Price, Sally Price
- Publisher:
- Duke University Press Books
- Publication Date:
- Aug 04, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 272 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0822369664
- ISBN-13:
- 9780822369660