"Equatoria" probes the nature of power relations between "us" and "them". This diary of an artifact-collecting expedition in French Guiana is accompanied by a sideshow of epigraphs and sketches. The authors detailed their day-to-day adventures and misadventures, constantly confronting their ambivalence about the act of collecting, the very possibility of exhibiting cultures, and the future of anthropology. By the time their expedition arrived in the villages of the Aluku Maroons, these African-American descendants of rebel ...
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"Equatoria" probes the nature of power relations between "us" and "them". This diary of an artifact-collecting expedition in French Guiana is accompanied by a sideshow of epigraphs and sketches. The authors detailed their day-to-day adventures and misadventures, constantly confronting their ambivalence about the act of collecting, the very possibility of exhibiting cultures, and the future of anthropology. By the time their expedition arrived in the villages of the Aluku Maroons, these African-American descendants of rebel slaves had become as comfortable in blue jeans and frilly mail-order dresses flown in from Paris as in patchwork breechcloths and trade cotton wrap-skirts. Richard and Sally Price have been learning and writing about Afro-Caribbean life for 30 years. Richard Price's most recent books are "First-Time" and "Alabi's World". Sally Price's publications include "Co-Wives and Calabashes" and "Primitive Art in Civilized Places". Together they have written "Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest", "Two Evenings in Saramaka" and Stedman's "Surinam".
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 295. 295 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. Some very faint spotting to page edges. Very good dust jacket.
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Seller's Description:
Price, Sally. Very Good. Book 295 pages, b/w sketches by Sally Price of artifacts of Afro-Caribbean life, references cited, 8vo; green cloth. Book is in very good condition, one page highlighting; no dust jacket.
