Praying and preying : Christianity in indigenous Amazonia / Aparecida Vilaca ; translated by David Rodgers.
2016
GN560.A53 V55 2016
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Title
Praying and preying : Christianity in indigenous Amazonia / Aparecida Vilaca ; translated by David Rodgers.
ISBN
9780520289130 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520289137 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520289147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520289145 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520963849 (e-book)
0520289137 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520289147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520289145 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520963849 (e-book)
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Copyright
2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
GN560.A53 V55 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.800981/1
Summary
"Praying and Preying offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the Wari', inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes Mission. Vilaca turns to a vast range of historical, ethnographic and mythological material related to both the Wari' and missionaries perspectives and the author's own ethnographic field notes from her more than 30-year involvement with the Wari' community. Developing a close dialogue between the Melanesian literature, which informs much of the recent work in the Anthropology of Christianity, and the concepts and theories deriving from Amazonian ethnology, in particular the notions of openness to the other, unstable dualism and perspectivism, the author provides a fine-grained analysis of the equivocations and paradoxes that underlie the translation processes performed by the different agents involved and their implications for the transformation of the native notion of personhood."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Anthropology of Christianity.
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Table of Contents
The New Tribes Mission
Versions versus bodies: translations in contact
The encounter with the missionaries
Eating god's words: kinship and conversion
Praying and preying
Strange creator
Christian ritual life
Moral changes
Personhood and its translations.
Versions versus bodies: translations in contact
The encounter with the missionaries
Eating god's words: kinship and conversion
Praying and preying
Strange creator
Christian ritual life
Moral changes
Personhood and its translations.