false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173133227m/249957.jpg 249928 3 The life of Medard Aribot of Martinique óartist, convict, madman, legend óspans much of the twentieth century. Born in 1901 when slavery was a living memory, Medard was allegedly sent to a French penal colony for carving a bust of a colonial official that rioters hoisted overhead during a 1925 massacre. Today, the peculiar house he built for himself late in life is a major tourist attraction in Martinique. <BR><BR>With an exciting combination of scholarship and storytelling, award-winning anthropologist Richard Price takes us on a search for the real Medard. Using the Diamant massacre and the life of Aribot as emblems of Martinique's transition from a colonial society to a modern society, the author shows how the fishing village he encountered on his first trip to Martinique in 1962 has been transformed by a heavily assisted welfare-based consumer economy. And Medard, whose life was once a subversive symbol of anticolonial sentiment, has been silenced by contemporary myths . . . or has he? <BR><BR>Part historical mystery, part biography, part cultural studies, The Convict and the Colonel is a fascinating story of a society in transition and the role of the prophetic figure in historical memory. <BR><BR><BR>"Price quotes a phrase from colleague Sidney Mintz about the kind of anthropology that is 'at the fault line between the large and the little.' In this intellectually daring book, he gets as close to the fault line as possible."<BR><BR>--Publishers Weekly 242205 1 11 1998 The Convict and the Colonel total:16|5:3|4:5|3:5|2:2|1:1| 16 55 25 2 3 0 false false Tue Feb 10 21:47:05 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 20:58:34 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 07:53:45 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 07:25:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 03 07:21:10 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 07:21:10 -0800 2009 4 0 true false Sun Nov 08 09:45:06 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 09:45:28 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Sep 11 09:44:57 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 09:44:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 29 15:50:25 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 15:50:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 26 14:41:37 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 14:41:37 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Aug 05 21:16:14 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 21:16:14 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Aug 05 21:05:20 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 21:05:20 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jun 02 22:45:41 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 22:45:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 10 16:31:29 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 16:31:29 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 10 07:33:46 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 07:33:46 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Feb 18 16:50:17 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 09:08:19 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 16:50:17 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Feb 14 11:20:35 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 11:20:35 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 13 06:56:08 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 06:56:08 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 03 21:00:36 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 21:00:36 -0800 2008 1 0 false false Mon Oct 27 19:17:11 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 19:17:11 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Sep 10 10:55:10 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 10:55:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Aug 14 09:16:58 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 09:16:58 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue May 13 05:54:57 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 05:54:57 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=249957