Two Evenings in Saramaka

by Richard Price and Sally Price

Book Overview

"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 adult world of Saramaka "folktale-land," where animals speak, the social order is inverted, customs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226680622
• ISBN13: 9780226680620
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"