Travels with Tooy
Subtitle: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780226680590
Subjects: Anthropology; Ethnic studies; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Latin America - South America; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Customs & Traditions; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Biography; Cayenne Region; French Guiana; Relocation; Rites and ceremonies; Saramacca (Surinamese people)
Description: 35 years into his research in South America, Richard Price ecountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher and healer living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. With a blend of storytelling and scholarship, 'Travels with Tooy' recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals.