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Travels with Tooy : history, memory, and the African American imagination / Richard Price.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Price, Richard, 1941-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Alexander, Tooy.
Saramacca (Surinamese people)--Biography.
Saramacca (Surinamese people).
Saramacca (Surinamese people)--Rites and ceremonies.
Saramacca (Surinamese people)--Relocation--French Guiana--Cayenne Region.
Shamanism--French Guiana--Cayenne Region.
Shamanism.
Rites and ceremonies.
Cayenne Region (French Guiana)--Religious life and customs.
Cayenne Region (French Guiana).
Cayenne Region (French Guiana)--Social life and customs.
French Guiana--Cayenne Region.
French Guiana.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xi, 452 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Summary:
Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest/philosopher/healer who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the visible and invisible, and the worlds of the living and the dead. Travels with Tooy brings together Price's ethnographic and archival research and Tooy's teachings, songs, stories, and secret languages to explore how Africans in the Americas have created marvelous new worlds of the imagination.
Contents:
Prelude 01142007 vii
Martinique 01012000 1
The Soldier's Charm 0000800 6
Sea Gods 00000000 9
Dungulali-Obia 00000000 15
The Beach at Cock's Crow 04092000 23
Night of the Cats 06212000 29
End of the Road 06202000 32
Tooy Possessed 2000/2006 41
Enstoolment 06302001 48
Mother Africa 1690/1712 51
New World Beginnings 1712 55
The Pink House 05081986/06071997 57
Gweyunga, the Rain Priest 1690/1754 60
Antama at War 01201753 63
The Soldier's Tale 10051939 66
Thunder Axes 00000000 80
Master of the House 06222000 82
Storm Clouds 07082001 91
Sex, Magic, and Murder 06212001/1754 94
Friction 05242000/07062004 100
Sangono mi toala! 1760/1763 107
The Namesake 1848/1931 112
Frenchwoman's Revenge 1920/2005 127
Tampaki 1900/2005 133
Palimpsests 1604/1837/1841/1863/2001 146
Antama the Obia-Man 1771/1800 150
My First-Time Museum 1690/2007 172
The Trial 02202002 177
Grounds for Appeal? 02202002/03012002 192
The Prison 02202002/06022003 200
The Wetlands at Kaw 07152004 206
Tembai's Village 1981/05282005 216
Fleeing Trumps Standing 04182005/05302005 226
Politics 04182005/05302005 237
Tooy Teaching I Mostly Luangu and Pumbu 04182005/05302005 245
Tooy Teaching II Mostly Papa' 04182005/05302005 248
Tooy Teaching III Komanti, Wenti, and More 04182005/05302005 260
Dunuyangi Takes Over 04182005/05302005 271
Goodbyes 05302005 276
Knocking the Stone 11142005/12142005 278
Reflections from the Verandah 01012007 287
Coda: Esoteric Language 309
Dramatis Personae 391.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-446).
ISBN:
9780226680583
0226680584
9780226680590
0226680592
OCLC:
105437970

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