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 the place of “primitive art” in the imaginary of Western viewers include Primitive Art in Civilized Places and Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac’s Museum on the Quai Branly. The Prices have coauthored many books, including Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension.
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
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