Testing the waters -- On trial -- A feast for the ancestors -- Going "outside" -- On Nai's doorstep -- Under Kala's house -- The Sika -- What month is it? -- The captain's "granddaughter" -- Upriver -- At the ancestor shrine -- The cock's balls -- Nai's rivergod -- Agbago's seagod -- Kala's snakegod -- A touch of madness -- Playing for the gods -- A tree falls -- Sickness -- Death of a witch -- Chasing ghosts -- Death of a child -- Returns -- Foto -- Looking at paper -- The end of an era
Summary
The eminent anthropologists Richard and Sally Price look back at their first years living among the Saamaka maroons in Suriname in the late 1960s, retelling the evolution of their personal lives and careers, relationships with the Saamaka, and the field of anthropology
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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