Praying and preying : Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Colección:Anthropology of Christianity ; 19.
Temas:
New Tribes Mission > History.
New Tribes Mission
Indigenous peoples > Amazon River Region > History.
Christianity > Amazon River Region.
Pakaasnovos Indians > Religion.
Missions, Brazilian > Amazon River Region > History.
Conversion > Christianity.
Pacaa-Nova > Religion.
Conversion > Christianisme.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Christianity
Conversion > Christianity
Indigenous peoples
Missions, Brazilian
Amazon River Region
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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