Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred images, this groundbreaking study presents the arts of the Maroons-descendants of rebel slaves from diverse African origins who wrested their freedom from Dutch plantation owners in South America in the eighteenth century and established independent societies in the tropical rain forest.
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Anthropologists Sally and Richard Price transport us into the ancient world of the Saramanka and Ndyuka Maroon, who live in the rainforests of the South American countries Suriname and French Guyana and are possibly the most African people in the Americas. These descendants of slaves were brought to that region nearly 500 years ago by Dutch traders, but they rebelled, escaped, and formed autonomous communities that have survived for centuries. By examining their art--a robust potpourri of Afro-Amerindian-influenced anthropomorphic figurines, calabash bowls, embroideries, hair-braiding patterns, dances, drums, finger pianos, and paintings--the authors also detail how these brave and proud people contended with colonial powers, coups, corporations, shady art dealers, and the assault of modern civilization on their cultural values (as well as how they choose what to adapt and reject from the modern world). "The arts of the Maroons," they write, "forged in an inhospitable rainforest by people under constant threat of annihilation, stand as an enduring testimony to African-American resilience and creativity." --Eugene Holley Jr.
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Sally and Richard Price's groundbreaking work puts the history back into the art history of the African diaspora, carefully documenting three centuries of struggle, debate, imitation, and innovation in one of the world's most beautiful artistic traditions. --J. Lorand Matory, professor of Afro-American studies and anthropology, Harvard University
"This is a true marriage of anthropology and art history, and there is nothing in the anthropology of art yet like this kind of placement of expression in sociohistorical context." --Fred Myers, chair, department of anthropology, New York University
"At once informative, sympathetic, insightful, and richly illustrated. It is a major contribution to our understanding of the cultural systems of the African Diaspora." --Colin Palmer, Distinguished Professor of History, the Graduate School, City University of New York
"This is a true marriage of anthropology and art history, and there is nothing in the anthropology of art yet like this kind of placement of expression in sociohistorical context." --Fred Myers, chair, department of anthropology, New York University
"At once informative, sympathetic, insightful, and richly illustrated. It is a major contribution to our understanding of the cultural systems of the African Diaspora." --Colin Palmer, Distinguished Professor of History, the Graduate School, City University of New York
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- First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People by Richard Price in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature by Mary Lou Emery in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader (KeyWorks in Cultural Studies) by Jana Evans Braziel on page 281, and Back Matter
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