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

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  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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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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  • Title

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

  • Author

    Vanessa Grotti

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Berghahn Books

  • Published

    April 2022

  • Weight

    432g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781800734586

  • ISBN-10

    1800734581

  • Eden Code

    5632368