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Richard Price is an American anthropologist and historian whose work focuses on Afro-American history, Caribbean societies and Maroon communities. With Sally Price, he conducted extended collaborative research among the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname and wrote ethnographies and historical studies draw...
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Saramaka scholarship reshaped Maroon historiography and experimental ethnographic writing; acclaimed for collaboration and archival depth, despite debates over representation and authority.
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Sally Price is an American anthropologist whose research connects the anthropology of art with the history and visual culture of Maroon communities in Suriname and French Guiana. Her work examines how African-descended societies in the Guianas make, use, interpret, and represent art, while also ques...
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Influential critiques of primitive-art institutions and collaborative Maroon scholarship reshaped museum anthropology; admired accessibility and politics, with occasional debates over polemical framing.
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