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

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...

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Main Author: Grotti, Vanessa Elisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2022
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Online Access:BSB01
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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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (197 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781800734593
DOI:10.1515/9781800734593

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