| Equatoria Revised Edition Contributor(s): Price, Richard (Author), Price, Sally (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415908957 ISBN-13: 9780415908955 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1994 Annotation: Equatoria, a playful but eminently serious book, is both travelogue and cultural critique. On the right-hand pages, the Prices chronicle their 1990 artifact-collecting expedition into the rain forest of French Guiana, and on the left, stage an accompanying sideshow that enlists the help of Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alex Haley, James Clifford, Eric Hobsbawm, and Germaine Greer, as well as nurses, doctors, tourists, convicts, and countless others who live in the French penal colony turned space center in tropical South America. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 988.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.14" W x 8.96" (0.88 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A postmodern romp through the rain forest, Equatoria is both travelogue and cultural critique. On the right-hand pages, the Prices chronicle their 1990 artifact-collecting expedition up the rivers of French Guiana, and on the left, stage an accompanying sideshow that enlists the help of Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Alex Haley, James Clifford, Eric Hobsbawn, Germaine Greer, and even the noted anthropologist James Goodfellow. Charged with acquiring objects for a new museum, the Prices kept a log of their day-to-day adventures and misadventures, constantly confronting their ambivalence about the act of collecting, the very possibility of exhibiting cultures and the future of anthropology. Probing the nature of museums, collecting, and power relations between us and them, the Prices raise many troubling questions. |