Paletó and me: memories of my Indigenous father

"Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father. When Aparecida Vilaça first traveled down the remote Negro River in Amazonia, she expected to come back with no...

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1. Verfasser: Vilaça, Aparecida 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Rodgers, David (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Portuguese
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father. When Aparecida Vilaça first traveled down the remote Negro River in Amazonia, she expected to come back with notebooks and tapes full of observations about the Indigenous Wari' people--but not with a new father. In Paletó and Me, Vilaça shares her life with her adoptive Wari' family, and the profound personal transformations involved in becoming kin. Paletó--unfailingly charming, always prepared with a joke--shines with life in Vilaça's account of their unusual father-daughter relationship. Paletó was many things: he was a survivor, who lived through the arrival of violent invaders and diseases. He was a leader, who taught through laughter and care, spoke softly, yet was always ready to jump into the unknown. He could shift seamlessly between the roles of the observer and the observed, and in his visits to Rio de Janeiro, deconstructs urban social conventions with ease and wit. Begun the day after Paletó's death at the age of 85, Paletó and Me is a celebration of life, weaving together the author's own memories of learning the lifeways of Indigenous Amazonia with her father's testimony to Wari' persistence in the face of colonization. Speaking from the heart as both anthropologist and daughter, Vilaça offers an intimate look at Indigenous lives in Brazil over nearly a century"--
Beschreibung:"Originally published in Portuguese in 2018 under the title Paletó e eu : memórias de meu pai indígena."
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (219 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:9781503629349
DOI:10.1515/9781503629349

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