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...
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Author: Vanessa Grotti
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Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia by Grotti, Vanessa

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

Dhs. 1,212.44

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

Dhs. 1,212.44
Author: Vanessa Grotti
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Vanessa Grotti
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 04/01/2022
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781800734586

About the Author
Grotti, Vanessa: -

Vanessa Grotti is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna. She is co-editor of Animism in Rainforest and Tundra (2012, Berghahn), and Ownership and Nurture, and Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: Encounters with Alterity in Birth and Death (2021, Palgrave MacMillan).

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