Books by Richard Price

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.

"First Time" traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. Each page of the book presents s transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their 18th century ancestors, with additional commentary.

Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler. With a blend of storytelling and scholarship, this title recounts the journeys of these two intellectuals.

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 world where the boundaries of authenticity and deception blur in the tropical heat.

Both travelog and cultural critique, this book chronicles the Prices' 1990 artefact-collecting expedition up the rivers of French Guiana and contains a collection of extracts from writers such as Jonathan Swift, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez and Germaine Greer.

A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals

The incidence of industrial conflict and the nature of workplace industrial relations have occupied a central place in public and academic commentary on British society.

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This pamphlet opens the diaries kept by Melville and Frances Herskovits on their famous 1920s expedition deep into the South American jungle.

This 1992 book is a collection of Richard Price's most important pamphlets of the period 1759-89. It is accompanied by a comprehensive introduction putting Price's work in context, complete bibliographical material, a chronology, and biographical notes on persons mentioned in the texts.