1 option
Praying and preying : Christianity in indigenous Amazonia / Aparecida Vilaça ; translated by David Rodgers.
LIBRA GN560.A53 V55 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Tribes Mission.
- Indigenous peoples--Amazon River Region--History.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Christianity--Amazon River Region.
- Christianity.
- Pakaasnovos Indians--Religion.
- Pakaasnovos Indians.
- Missions, Brazilian--Amazon River Region--History.
- Missions, Brazilian.
- New Tribes Mission--History.
- Conversion--Christianity.
- Conversion.
- History.
- Religion.
- Amazon River Region.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
- 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. 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 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
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520289130
- 0520289137
- 9780520289147
- 0520289145
- OCLC:
- 921310607
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.