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
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.
Si usted habla español...
Si vous parlez français...
Als U nederlands spreekt...
Se você fala português...
