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When Richard and Sally Price stepped out of the canoe to begin their fieldwork with the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in 1966, they were met with a mixture of curiosity, suspicion, ambivalence, hostility, and fascination. With their gradual acceptance into the community they undertook the work that would shape their careers and influence the study of African American societies throughout the hemisphere for decades to come. In Saamaka Dreaming they look back on the experience, reflecting on a discipline and a society that are considerably different today. Drawing on thousands of pages of field notes, as well as recordings, file cards, photos, and sketches, the Prices retell and comment on the most intensive fieldwork of their careers, evoke the joys and hardships of building relationships and trust, and outline their personal adaptation to this unfamiliar universe. The book is at once a moving human story, a portrait of a remarkable society, and a thought-provoking revelation about the development of anthropology over the past half-century.
Contents
Preface ix
1. Testing the Waters 1
2. On Trial 13
3. A Feast for the Ancestors 28
4. Going "Outside" 34
5. On Nai's Doorstep 40
6. Under Kala's House 51
7. The Sika 58
8. What Month It It? 62
9. The Captain's "Granddaughter" 71
10. Upriver 74
11. At the Ancestor Shrine 86
12. The Cock's Balls 100
13. Nai's Rivergod 103
14. Agbago's Seagod 108
15. Kala's Snakegod 114
16. A Touch of Madness 123
17. Playing for the Gods 132
18. A Tree Falls 139
19. Sickness 144
20. Death of a Witch 155
21. Chasing Ghosts 173
22. Death of a Child 179
23. Returns 190
24. Foto 202
25. Looking at Paper 205
26. The End of an Era 215
Notes 231
Bibliography 243
Index 247
