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Primitive Art in Civilized Places
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Professor Sally Price
What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources--including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research and even comic strips like Doonesbury--Price explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. "A ...
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Caribbean Contours
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Professor Sidney Wilfred Mintz, Professor Sally Price (Editor)
In 'Caribbean Contours' eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demography, and culture of the Caribbean to provide an authoritative yet accessible introduction to this complex and geographically fragmented region.
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Enigma Variations
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Richard Price, Professor Sally Price
In a steamy colonial city, an eccentric Frenchman offers for sale an extraordinary collection of primitive art. The two anthropologists called in to appraise the pieces for the national museum quickly find themselves in a murky world where the boundaries of authenticity and deception blur in the tropical heat. What begins as an intellectual puzzle ...
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Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension
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Professor Richard Price, Professor Sally Price
Romare Bearden (1911-1988), the great African American artist, spent much of the last two decades of his life on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. This tropical experience influenced not only the work (mainly watercolors) that he produced while in the region but also the imagery of rural North Carolina and Harlem that he created during his final ...
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Stedman's Surinam Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society
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Professor John Gabriel Stedman, Professor Sally Price (Editor), Richard Price (Editor)
This abridgement of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of ...
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Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly
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Professor Sally Price
In 1990, Jacques Chirac, the future president of France and a passionate fan of non-European art, met Jacques Kerchache, a maverick art collector with the lifelong ambition of displaying African sculpture in the holy temple of French culture, the Louvre. Together, they began laying plans, and ten years later African fetishes were on view under the ...
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Two Evenings in Saramaka
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Richard Price, Professor Sally Price
"Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryphal Professor Goodfellow in the opening lines of "Two Evenings in Saramaka," "After all those books on history and ethnography," he muses, "why are they now turning to children's stories and nonsense songs--mere folklore?" In this innovative work, Richard and Sally Price explore the fully ...
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Primitive Art in Civilized Places: Second Edition
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Sally Price
What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources-including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research, and even comic strips like "Doonesbury"--Price explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. " ...
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Equatoria
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Richard Price, Sally Price
"Equatoria" probes the nature of power relations between "us" and "them". This diary of an artifact-collecting expedition in French Guiana is accompanied by a sideshow of epigraphs and sketches. The authors detailed their day-to-day adventures and misadventures, constantly confronting their ambivalence about the act of collecting, the very ...
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Afro-American arts of the Suriname Rain Forest
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Sally Price, Richard Price, Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History University of California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery
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Co-Wives and Calabashes
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Professor Sally Price (Preface by)
A fascinating exploration into the world of the Saramaka Maroons of the Suriname rain forest, Co-wives and Calabashes examines the status of women in this polygynous and matrilineal society as reflected in its social structure and its art.
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Co-Wives and Calabashes: 1st Edition
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Professor Sally Price
Explores the world of the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname and the status of women as reflected in social structure and art
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Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest
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Richard Price, Sally Price
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Nursery Collection
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Sally Emerson Susan Price Colin Maclean Moira Maclean
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Maroon Arts
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Professor Sally Price, Richard Price
Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora Lavishly illustrated with more than 350 images, this groundbreaking new book traces traditions in woodcarving, textiles, clothing, and jewelry created by the Maroon people of Suriname and French Guiana.
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The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start
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Richard Price, Professor Sally Price
Anthropological iconoclasts Richard and Sally Price have spent the last two decades not only creating an unparalleled oeuvre of scholarship in several areas of anthropology but also unabashedly calling foul on any untenable or patronizing concepts of "us" and "them," "primitive" and "modern," that cross their path. For this pamphlet, they crack ...
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Bay Village
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Virginia L Peterson, Sally Irwin Price
Tucked away in the northeast corner of Cuyahoga County, Bay Village lies just outside Cleveland. The first settlers arrived around 1810 during the nations westward expansion. The village was primarily agrarian in the beginning, home to many vineyards. By the end of the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution had gained momentum, and in 1896, an electric ...
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Mental Health in Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Sally Ann Price (Editor)
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It takes a comprehensive look at the issues surrounding mental illness and pregnancy. Describing common disorders and their relationship with pregnancy, it promotes an understanding of the issues involved and offers tools to providing the most ...
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Maroon Arts CL
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Professor Sally Price, Richard Price
Award-winning anthropologists Sally and Richard Price have produced the first comprehensive exploration of the aesthetic development of the Maroons, descendants of African rebel slaves who won their freedom from the Dutch in the 18th century and lived in the South American rainforests. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images.
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What Am I Getting Myself Into?
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Sara Wise, Jenny Wise Salway, Sally Phillips Price
Despite her fears and concerns, Sara Wise embarks on a faith adventure when she takes on a severely mentally disabled eight-year-old boy.
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Stedman's Surinam: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society. an Abridged, Modernized Edition of Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
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Professor John Gabriel Stedman, Professor Sally Price (Editor), Richard Price (Editor)
This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial ...
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Museum Premieres
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Rudolf Steiner, Price Stern Sloan Publishing, Sally E Miller (Editor)
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The Kingfisher nursery collection
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Susan Price, Colin Maclean, Moira Maclean, Sally Emerson
A collection of popular nursery rhymes, counting rhymes and action rhymes for parents to play with their children, lullabies to send them to sleep, and 20 favourite bedtime stories. Colin and Moira Maclean have illustrated more than 50 children's books, including the "Nursery Village" series.
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Les Marrons
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Richard & Sally Price Price
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