Background
Price, Sally was born on September 16, 1943 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Arthur Tenney and Pauline Louise (Randolph) Hamlin.
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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 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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Price, Sally was born on September 16, 1943 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Arthur Tenney and Pauline Louise (Randolph) Hamlin.
AB, Harvard University, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1982.
Assistant professor anthropology Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1984-1985. Chercheur associé Laboratory D'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris, 1985-1987. Visiting associate professor international studies University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1987-1988.
Visiting associate professor anthropology Stanford (California) University, 1989-1990. Lecturer art and archaeology Princeton (New Jersey) University, spring 1992. Dittman professor American studies and anthropology College William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, since 1994.
Guest curator University of California at Los Angeles Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, 1979-1982. Book review editor New West Indian Guide, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1982-1986, 90—. George A. Miller Endowment visiting professor University Illinois, Urbana, 1994.
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Member Royal Netherlands Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Richard Price. Children: Niko, Leah.