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

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.

Cayenne Region (French Guiana)--Religious life and customs.

Cayenne Region (French Guiana).

Cayenne Region (French Guiana)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (467 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the worlds of the living and the dead, and the visible and invisible. With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship, Travels with Tooy recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals. Included on the itinerary for this hallucinatory expedition: forays into the eighteenth century to talk with slaves newly arrived from Africa; leaps into the midst of battles against colonial armies; close encounters with double agents and femme fatale forest spirits; and trips underwater to speak to the comely sea gods who control the world's money supply. This enchanting book draws on Price's long-term ethnographic and archival research, but above all on Tooy's teachings, songs, stories, and secret languages to explore how Africans in the Americas have created marvelous new worlds of the imagination.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prelude 01142007

Martinique 01012000

The Soldier's Charm 0000800

Sea Gods 00000000

Dúnguláli-Óbia 00000000

The Beach at Cock's Crow 04092000

Night of the Cats 06212000

End of the Road 06202000

Tooy Possessed 2000/2006

Enstoolment 06302001

Mother Africa 1690/1712

New World Beginnings 1712

The Pink House 05081986/06071997

Gweyúnga, the Rain Priest 1690/1754

Antamá at War 01201753

The Soldier's Tale 10051939

Thunder Axes 00000000

Master of the House 06222000

Storm Clouds 07082001

Sex, Magic, and Murder 06212001/1754

Friction 05242000/07062004

Sángono mi tóala! 1760/1763

The Namesake 1848/1931

Frenchwoman's Revenge 1920/2005

Tampáki 1900/2005

Palimpsests 1604/1837/1841/1863/2001

Antamá the Óbia-Man 1771/1800

Chronology 1933/1970

My First-Time Museum 1690/2007

The Trial 02202002

Grounds for Appeal? 02202002/03012002

The Prison 02202002/06022003

The Wetlands at Kaw 07152004

Tembái's Village 1981/05282005

Fleeing Trumps Standing 04182005/05302005

Politics 04182005/05302005

Tooy Teaching I-Mostly Luángu and Púmbu 04182005/05302005

Tooy Teaching II-Mostly Papá 04182005/05302005

Tooy Teaching III-Komantí, Wénti, and More 04182005/05302005

Dúnuyángi Takes Over 04182005/05302005

Goodbyes 05302005

Knocking the Stone 11142005/12142005

Refl ections from the Verandah 01012007

Coda: Esoteric Language

Dramatis Personae

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-446).

ISBN:

9786612537950

9781282537958

1282537954

9780226680576

0226680576

OCLC:

609634748