Praying and Preying : Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia Paperback / softback
by Aparecida Vilaca
Part of the The Anthropology of Christianity series
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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.
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- Pages:330 pages, 17 black and white, 2 maps
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:29/03/2016
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- ISBN:9780520289147
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:330 pages, 17 black and white, 2 maps
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:29/03/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520289147