ISBN:
9780520963849
,
0520963849
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Series Statement:
The anthropology of Christianity 19
Parallel Title:
Print version Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958- author Praying and preying
DDC:
305.8009811
Keywords:
New Tribes Mission History
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New Tribes Mission
;
New Tribes Mission History
;
New Tribes Mission History
;
New Tribes Mission
;
Indigenous peoples History
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Amazon River Region
;
Christianity Amazon River Region
;
Pakaasnovos Indians Religion
;
Missions, Brazilian History
;
Amazon River Region
;
Conversion Christianity
;
Amazon River Region
;
Indigenous peoples History
;
Christianity
;
Pakaasnovos Indians Religion
;
Missions, Brazilian History
;
Conversion Christianity
;
Indigenous peoples History
;
Christianity
;
Pakaasnovos Indians Religion
;
Missions, Brazilian History
;
Conversion Christianity
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Christianity
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Conversion ; Christianity
;
Indigenous peoples
;
Missions, Brazilian
;
History
;
Amazon River Region
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
"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. Vilaça 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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
