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The Root of Roots

Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got its Start

Richard Price author Sally Price author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:2nd Dec '03

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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 the yellowing diaries kept by Melville and Frances Herskovits on their famous 1920s expedition deep into the South American jungle, exposing—with their trademark combination of deadpan wit and theoretical rigor—the origins of the field that has come to be known as African diaspora studies.

ISBN: 9780972819626

Dimensions: 18mm x 12mm x 1mm

Weight: 85g

104 pages