Nurturing the other : first contacts and the making of Christian bodies in Amazonia /

Nurturing the other : first contacts and the making of Christian bodies in Amazonia /

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Author / Creator:Grotti, Vanessa Elisa, author.
Imprint:New York : Berghahn, 2022.
©2022
Description:xi, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Indigenous peoples -- Suriname -- Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples -- French Guiana -- Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples -- Suriname -- Religion.
Indigenous peoples -- French Guiana -- Religion.
Nomads -- Sedentarization -- Amazon River Region.
Christianity -- Social aspects -- Amazon River Region.
Missions, American -- Amazon River Region -- History.
Christianity -- Social aspects.
Indigenous peoples -- Religion.
Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions.
Missions, American.
Nomads -- Sedentarization.
Religion.
Social conditions.
Amazon River Region -- Social conditions.
Amazon River Region -- Religion.
Amazon River Region.
French Guiana.
Suriname.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12766560
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ISBN:9781800734586
1800734581
9781800734593
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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"--
Other form:Online version: Grotti, Vanessa Elisa. Nurturing the other New York : Berghahn, 2022 9781800734593

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