Travels with Tooy History, Memory, and the African American Imagination

Name: Travels with Tooy History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
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ISBN: 9780226680590

ISBN-10: 0226680592

ISBN-13: 9780226680590

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard Price

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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 Tooyrecounts 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…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.90" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



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