 | Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial Subjects: Saramacca (Surinamese people) -- Civil rights; Saramacca (Surinamese people) -- Legal status laws etc.; Human rights -- Suriname; Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life--part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. Richard Price divides his time between rural Martinique and the College of William and Mary, where he is Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Professor of Anthropology and History. His award-winning books include First-Time, Alabi's World, The Convict and the Colonel, and Travels with Tooy. He is the coauthor, with Sally Price, of Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
