Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia

Grotti, Vanessa

 
9781800734586: Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia
ISBN 10 : 1800734581 ISBN 13 : 9781800734586
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2022

Synopsis

Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana. The author examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transformation through the lens of the body, notions of peacefulness and kinship, as well as native warfare and shamanism. The book addresses questions of change and continuity, and the little explored links between first contacts, capture and native conversion to Christianity in contemporary indigenous Amazonia.

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À propos de l?auteur

Vanessa Grotti is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna. She is coeditor of Animism in Rainforest and Tundra (Berghahn, 2012) and Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: Encounters with Alterity in Birth and Death (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021).

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1800734581
ISBN 13 
9781800734586
Reliure
Belle reliure
Nombre de pages
212
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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