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Author Price, Richard, 1941-

Title Travels with Tooy : history, memory, and the African American imagination / Richard Price
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 452 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Prelude 01142007; Martinique 01012000; The Soldier's Charm 0000800; Sea Gods 00000000; Dúnguláli-Óbia 00000000; The Beach at Cock's Crow 04092000; Night of the Cats 06212000; End of the Road 06202000; Tooy Possessed 2000/2006; Enstoolment 06302001; Mother Africa 1690/1712; New World Beginnings 1712; The Pink House 05081986/06071997; Gweyúnga, the Rain Priest 1690/1754; Antamá at War 01201753; The Soldier's Tale 10051939; Thunder Axes 00000000; Master of the House 06222000; Storm Clouds 07082001; Sex, Magic, and Murder 06212001/1754; Friction 05242000/07062004
Sángono mi tóala! 1760/1763The Namesake 1848/1931; Frenchwoman's Revenge 1920/2005; Tampáki 1900/2005; Palimpsests 1604/1837/1841/1863/2001; Antamá the Óbia-Man 1771/1800; Chronology 1933/1970; My First-Time Museum 1690/2007; The Trial 02202002; Grounds for Appeal? 02202002/03012002; The Prison 02202002/06022003; The Wetlands at Kaw 07152004; Tembái's Village 1981/05282005; Fleeing Trumps Standing 04182005/05302005; Politics 04182005/05302005; Tooy Teaching I-Mostly Luángu and Púmbu 04182005/05302005; Tooy Teaching II-Mostly Papá 04182005/05302005
Tooy Teaching III-Komantí, Wénti, and More 04182005/05302005Dúnuyángi Takes Over 04182005/05302005; Goodbyes 05302005; Knocking the Stone 11142005/12142005; Reflections from the Verandah 01012007; Coda: Esoteric Language; Dramatis Personae; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits
Summary 35 years into his research in South America, Richard Price ecountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher and healer living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. With a blend of storytelling and scholarship, 'Travels with Tooy' recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-446)
Notes In English
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Subject Alexander, Tooy
SUBJECT Alexander, Tooy fast
Subject Saramacca (Surinamese people) -- Biography
Saramacca (Surinamese people) -- Rites and ceremonies
Saramacca (Surinamese people) -- Relocation -- French Guiana -- Cayenne Region
Shamanism -- French Guiana -- Cayenne Region
HISTORY.
Manners and customs
Saramacca (Surinamese people)
Shamanism
SUBJECT Cayenne Region (French Guiana) -- Religious life and customs
Cayenne Region (French Guiana) -- Social life and customs
Subject French Guiana -- Cayenne Region
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007011573
ISBN 9780226680576
0226680576
1282537954
9781282537958
9786612537950
6612537957