The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780972819626)

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.

Author: Richard Price,Sally Price
ISBN-10: 0972819622
ISBN-13: 9780972819626
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2003
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.22h x 4.58w x 0.24d