Travels With Tooy

by Price, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780226680590
• ISBN10: 0226680592
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the worlds of the living and the dead, and the visible and invisible. With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship,Travels with Tooyrecounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals. Included on the itinerary for this hallucinatory expedition: forays into the eighteenth century to talk with slaves newly arrived from Africa; leaps into the midst of battles against colonial armies; close encounters with double agents and femme fatale forest spirits; and trips underwater to speak to the comely sea gods who control the world's money supply. This enchanting book draws on Price's long-term ethnographic and archival research, but above all on Tooy's teachings, songs, stories, and secret languages to explore how Africans in the Americas have created marvelous new worlds of the imagination.

Author Biography

Richard Price is the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies, Anthropology, and History at the College of William and Mary. He is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including the award-winning Alabi’s World.

Table of Contents

Prelude 01142007	p. vii
Martinique 01012000	p. 1
The Soldier's Charm 0000800	p. 6
Sea Gods 00000000	p. 9
Dungulali-Obia 00000000	p. 15
The Beach at Cock's Crow 04092000	p. 23
Night of the Cats 06212000	p. 29
End of the Road 06202000	p. 32
Tooy Possessed 2000/2006	p. 41
Enstoolment 06302001	p. 48
Mother Africa 1690/1712	p. 51
New World Beginnings 1712	p. 55
The Pink House 05081986/06071997	p. 57
Gweyunga, the Rain Priest 1690/1754	p. 60
Antama at War 01201753	p. 63
The Soldier's Tale 10051939	p. 66
Thunder Axes 00000000	p. 80
Master of the House 06222000	p. 82
Storm Clouds 07082001	p. 91
Sex, Magic, and Murder 06212001/1754	p. 94
Friction 05242000/07062004	p. 100
Sangono mi toala! 1760/1763	p. 107
The Namesake 1848/1931	p. 112
Frenchwoman's Revenge 1920/2005	p. 127
Tampaki 1900/2005	p. 133
Palimpsests 1604/1837/1841/1863/2001	p. 146
Antama the Obia-Man 1771/1800	p. 150
Chronology 1933/1970	p. 159
My First-Time Museum 1690/2007	p. 172
The Trial 02202002	p. 177
Grounds for Appeal? 02202002/03012002	p. 192
The Prison 02202002/06022003	p. 200
The Wetlands at Kaw 07152004	p. 206
Tembai's Village 1981/05282005	p. 216
Fleeing Trumps Standing 04182005/05302005	p. 226
Politics 04182005/05302005	p. 237
Mostly Luangu and Pumbu 04182005/05302005	p. 245
Mostly Papa' 04182005/05302005	p. 248
Komanti, Wenti, and More 04182005/05302005	p. 260
Dunuyangi Takes Over 04182005/05302005	p. 271
Goodbyes 05302005	p. 276
Knocking the Stone 11142005/12142005	p. 278
Reflections from the Verandah 01012007	p. 287
Coda: Esoteric Language	p. 309
Dramatis Personae	p. 391
Notes	p. 395
Bibliography	p. 439
Acknowledgments	p. 449
Illustration Credits	p. 451
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