richard price & sally price

University of California Press, 1980

Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1975

Karoma, 1983

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976

Out-of-print or hard-to-find books

Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest
by Sally Price and Richard Price

An introduction to the artistic life of the Maroons, lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white plates. The text has been fully superseded by Maroon Arts (Beacon Press, 1999), but this edition has better-quality illustrations. A limited number of copies are available for sale by the authors; e-mail us using Quick Links (right column). Also available on-line from various out-of-print booksellers.

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Saramaka Social Structure:
Analysis of a Maroon Society in Surinam

by Richard Price

A revised 1970 Harvard dissertation, still available from the Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, by emailing the Institute: (viglesia@​rrpac.upr.clu.edu)

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To Slay the Hydra:
Dutch Colonial Perspectives on the Saramaka Wars

by Richard Price

A companion volume to First-Time, this book presents extensive archival documents, translated into English, on Saramakas' century-long struggle for liberation from slavery. Available on-line from various out-of-print booksellers. (Dutch edition, 1982, De Saramakaanse vrede van 1762: geselecteerde documenten, available from the Centrum voor Caraïbische Studies, Utrecht, the Netherlands.)

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The Guiana Maroons:
A Historical and Bibliographical Introduction

by Richard Price

Available on-line from various out-of-print booksellers.

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Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
Winner of the 2008 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, the 2009 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship, and the 2009 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion. . . . "An astonishing performance ... as lucid and cordial as the best contemporary fiction.”--George Lamming
Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly
"A delicious combination of art, anthropology, and politics"--Lucy R. Lippard
Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension
A lavishly-illustrated art book
Les Marrons
A French-language original, printed in full color.
Maroon Arts
"A tour-de-force ... a true marriage of anthropology and art history." --Fred Myers, New York University
Primitive Art in Civilized Places
"A witty, but scholarly, indictment of the whole primitive art business." --Newsweek
The Convict and The Colonel
"A superb calaloo of a book ... that explores the underlying insanity of the colonial experience." --George Lamming
Enigma Variations: A Novel
"A true gem... The promise of literary ethnography is fulfilled: to educate and, just as a lark, to entertain." --African Arts
First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People
"Sensitive and honest, First-Time is required reading for all who seek to learn something new through first-hand, long-term research with non-western intellectuals" --Ethnohistory
Alabi's World
"A splendid effort to recover the past." --New York Review of Books
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
"A splendid anthology, skillfully edited and introduced." --Eugene D. Genovese
The Birth of African-American Culture
"An innovative analysis of the creativity of African-Americans under the extreme constraints of slavery." --Rebecca Scott
Co-Wives and Calabashes
"Conceived with sophistication but presented with simplicity and clarity" --Choice
Equatoria
"A brilliantly crafted experiment in postmodern narration --J. Jorge Klor de Alva, president, University of Phoenix
Two Evenings in Saramaka
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.
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