Background
Price, Richard was born on November 30, 1941 in New York City. Son of George Price and Gertrude (Swee) Jaffe.
(A postmodern romp through the rain forest, Equatoria is b...)
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, and even the noted anthropologist James Goodfellow. Charged with acquiring objects for a new museum, the Prices kept a log of 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. Probing the nature of museums, collecting, and power relations between "us" and "them," the Prices raise many troubling questions.
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( "Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryp...)
"Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryphal Professor Goodfellow in the opening lines of Two Evenings in Saramaka. "After all those books on history and ethnography," he muses, "why are they now turning to children's stories and nonsense songs—mere folklore?" In this innovative work, Richard and Sally Price explore the fully adult world of Saramaka "folktale-land," where animals speak, the social order is inverted, customs have been only partially worked out, and the weak and clever triumph over the strong and arrogant. Joining the Saramaka of the Suriname rain forest for two tale-telling wakes, we witness mischievous Anasi the spider matching wits with lecherous devils, the scrawny little kid rescuing his nubile sisters in distress, and the bitchy white princess being tamed by the one-sided boy. As seas dry up, books speak out loud, and elephants assume human form, we are present at a whole sequence of world-shaping happenings such as the invention of sex, the discovery of drums, and the arrival of death among humans. Set in the more general context of tale telling by the descendants of Africans throughout the Americas and of recent scholarship in performance studies, these Saramaka tales are presented as a dramatic script. With the help of nearly forty photographs, readers become familiar not only with the characters in folktale-land, but also with the men and women who so imaginatively bring them to life. And because music complements narration in Saramaka just as it does elsewhere in Afro-America, more than fifty songs are presented here in musical notation. Narrative, song, dance, and social interaction merge in these two evenings of multimedia entertainment, bearing witness to an Afro-American cultural tradition that remains alive and vibrant, constantly renewed but always reflecting its links with the past.
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( An election day massacre in colonial Martinique. A “mad...)
An election day massacre in colonial Martinique. A “mad” artist who lives in a cave. A satirical wooden bust of a white colonel. The artist’s banishment to the Devil’s Island penal colony for “impertinence.” And a young anthropologist who arrives in Martinique in 1962, on the eve of massive modernization. In a stunning combination of scholarship and storytelling, the award-winning anthropologist Richard Price draws on long-term ethnography, archival documents, cinema and street theater, and Caribbean fiction and poetry to explore how one generation’s powerful historical metaphors could so quickly become the next generation’s trivial pursuit, how memories of oppression, inequality, and struggle could so easily become replaced by nostalgia, complicity, and celebration. “A superb callaloo of a book. . . . Richard Price has a remarkable grasp of the literatures of the Caribbean, and draws on this resource to explore the underlying insanity of the colonial experience, as well as the bewildering complexities of the postcolonial world where memory is erased or invented according to the demands of a market modernity.”—George Lamming, author of The Pleasures of Exile “By beautifully crafting elements as disparate as biographical data, sociological studies, literary sources, and archival documents, Richard Price’s research is more fascinating than a piece of fiction.”—Maryse Condé, author of I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem “Price does it again. Mixing eras, genres, and voices, he carries the reader through the contradictory streams of historical consciousness in the Caribbean island of Martinique. The result is as complex and as enticing as the sea it evokes.”—Michel-Rolph Trouillot, author of Silencing the Past “Filled with insights that are at once theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic, The Convict and the Colonel is required reading for anyone interested in colonialism, memory, and contemporary Caribbean societies.”—Jennifer Cole, American Ethnologist
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This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
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(A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces t...)
A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. Each page of the book presents a transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their eighteenth-century ancestors along with commentary from Price that places their accounts into a broader historical context.
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(Includes publications from 1667 to 1975. "Historical Fram...)
Includes publications from 1667 to 1975. "Historical Framework," guide to sources. and bibliography with 1330 entries, organized alpahbetically. Ex library with markings. Boards lightly soiled. ix, 184 pages. cloth. 8vo.
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(Noted writers on art, culture, and the tropical Americas,...)
Noted writers on art, culture, and the tropical Americas, Richard and Sally Price have crafted a mystery at the intersections of art and anthropology. Drawing readers into their quest for a solution, they build an unusual partnership between text and pictures, daringly expanding the possibilities of academic discourse. Enigma Variations--in the tradition of The Recognitions and The Crying of Lot 49--is an entertainment as readable for its intellectual power as for its irresistible drama.
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(The life of Medard Aribot of Martinique óartist, convict,...)
The life of Medard Aribot of Martinique óartist, convict, madman, legend óspans much of the twentieth century. Born in 1901 when slavery was a living memory, Medard was allegedly sent to a French penal colony for carving a bust of a colonial official that rioters hoisted overhead during a 1925 massacre. Today, the peculiar house he built for himself late in life is a major tourist attraction in Martinique. With an exciting combination of scholarship and storytelling, award-winning anthropologist Richard Price takes us on a search for the real Medard. Using the Diamant massacre and the life of Aribot as emblems of Martinique's transition from a colonial society to a modern society, the author shows how the fishing village he encountered on his first trip to Martinique in 1962 has been transformed by a heavily assisted welfare-based consumer economy. And Medard, whose life was once a subversive symbol of anticolonial sentiment, has been silenced by contemporary myths . . . or has he? Part historical mystery, part biography, part cultural studies, The Convict and the Colonel is a fascinating story of a society in transition and the role of the prophetic figure in historical memory. "Price quotes a phrase from colleague Sidney Mintz about the kind of anthropology that is 'at the fault line between the large and the little.' In this intellectually daring book, he gets as close to the fault line as possible." --Publishers Weekly
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Price, Richard was born on November 30, 1941 in New York City. Son of George Price and Gertrude (Swee) Jaffe.
Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology, Harvard University, 1970.
From lecturer to associate professor anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, 1969-1974;
professor anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974-1987;
department chairman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974-1977, 79-85;
Marta Sutton Weeks senior fellow Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford (California) U., 1989-1990;
fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for History Studies, Princeton University, 1992;
Rockefeller fellow in humanities, U. Florida, 1994. Visiting professor U. Paris, 1985-1987, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1987-1988. George I. Miller visiting scholar University of Illinois, 1994.
Dittman professor American Studies, anthropology and history College William and Mary, since 1994.
(This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vital...)
(A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces t...)
(Noted writers on art, culture, and the tropical Americas,...)
( "Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryp...)
(The life of Medard Aribot of Martinique óartist, convict,...)
(A postmodern romp through the rain forest, Equatoria is b...)
( An election day massacre in colonial Martinique. A “mad...)
(Includes publications from 1667 to 1975. "Historical Fram...)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
Fellow American Anthropological Association, Royal Anthropological Institute Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Dutch Institute Anthropology. Member American Ethnological Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Sally Hamlin, 1963. Children: Niko, Leah.