A Conversation with Richard and Sally Price

Richard Price is an anthropologist and historian who has written extensively on the history and culture of African Americans throughout the hemisphere. He has taught at Yale, Johns Hopkins, and William & Mary, and in France, the Netherlands, and Brazil. His prize-winning books, translated into several languages, include First-Time, Alabi’s World, The Convict and the Colonel, Travels with Tooy, and Rainforest Warriors and, most recently with Sally Price, Saamaka Dreaming and Maroons in Guyane. His latest book is a memoir: Inside/Outside: Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology (2022).

Sally Price has conducted anthropological field research in French Guiana, Martinique, Mexico, Spain, and Suriname, as well as with art collectors and museum curators in Europe. She has taught in the United States, Brazil, and France, and is the author of many books, including Primitive Art in Civilized Places, also published in Chinese, Dutch, French. German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish) and Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac’s Museum on the Quai Branly (2007, French edition 2011, Chinese edition in press). She and Richard Price are the authors of Enigma Variations (a novel about art forgery) and Saamaka Dreaming (about their two-year residence in a village in the Amazonian rain forest). She is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).