RICHARD PRICE is Professor of Anthropology and History at the College of William and Mary. His most recent books include First Time and Alabi¿s World. SALLY PRICE, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at the College of William and Mary, is the author of, most recently, Co-Wives and Calabashes and Primitive Art in Civilized Places, Evenings in Saramaka, and Enigma Variations.
A postmodern romp through the rain forest, Equatoria is both travelogue and cultural critique. On the right-hand pages, the Prices chronicle their 1990 artifact-collecting expedition up the rivers of French Guiana, and on the left, stage an accompanying sideshow that enlists the help of Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Alex Haley, James Clifford, Eric Hobsbawn, Germaine Greer, and even the noted anthropologist James Goodf...
Richard Price taught for many years at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University and is Professor Emeritus at the College of William and Mary. His numerous prize-winning books include Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination and Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial. Sally Price has taught in the United States, France, and Brazil and is Professor Emerita at the College of William and Mary. Her studies of...
Recounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris' museum world that resulted from Jacques Chirac's dream, set against a backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and the role of culture in French society.
This book relocates Bearden's Caribbean experience to the center of the work he did during the most productive period of his life. Produced in full color, it includes 130 Bearden paintings, almost all Caribbean watercolors and collages, few of which have ever been published.