Travels with Tooy
History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Martinique
The Soldier’s Charm
Sea Gods
Dúnguláli-Óbia
The Beach at Cock’s Crow
Night of the Cats
End of the Road
Tooy Possessed
Enstoolment
Mother Africa
New World Beginnings
The Pink House
Gweyúnga, the Rain Priest
Antamá at War
The Soldier’s Tale
Thunder Axes
Storm Clouds
Sex, Magic, and Murder
Friction
Sángono mi tóala!
The Namesake
Frenchwoman’s Revenge
Tampáki
Palimpsests
Antamá the Óbia-Man
Chronology
My First-Time Museum
The Trial
Grounds for Appeal?
The Prison
The Wetlands at Kaw
Tembái’s Village
Fleeing Trumps Standing
Politics
Tooy Teaching I—Mostly Luángu and Púmbu
Tooy Teaching II—Mostly Papá
Tooy Teaching III—Komantí, Wénti, and More
Dúnuyángi Takes Over
Goodbyes
Knocking the Stone
Reflections from the Verandah
Coda: Esoteric Language
Dramatis Personae
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
“Richard Price has had a long and torrential romance with the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname, exploring them and himself through a harvest of mythologies that dissolve all boundaries of time and geographical location. With Tooy as guide and mentor, across three centuries of African exile and resettlement in the Americas, we revisit the recent or forgotten spaces of Price’s near forty years of patient, scholarly research. It is an astonishing performance, rendering these treasures of anthropological materials in a narrative style as lucid and cordial as the best contemporary fiction.”
Society for the Anthropology of Religion: Clifford Geertz Prize
Won
Caribbean Studies Association: Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award
Won
Society for Humanistic Anthropology: Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing
Won
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
History: Latin American History
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