First-Time

Richard Price is the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies, Anthropology, and History at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Alabi's World, which won the 1993 J. I. Staley Prize from the School of American Research. First-Time won the 1984 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize from the American Folklore Society.

"Sensitive and honest, First-Time is required reading for all who seek to learn something new through first-hand, long-term research with non-western intellectuals." - Norman E. Whitten, Jr., Ethnohistory