Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
"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
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."
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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."
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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"
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Ethnohistory
Alabi's World
"A splendid effort to recover the past."
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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
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Co-Wives and Calabashes
"Conceived with sophistication but presented with simplicity and clarity"
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Choice
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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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