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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9780520963849 (e-book)

ISBN 0520289137 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 0520289145 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780520289130 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780520289147 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Anthropology of Christianity

Print version: Vilaca, Aparecida. Praying and preying : Christianity in indigenous Amazonia. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] Anthropology of Christianity ISBN 9780520289130

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

"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 New Tribes Mission. Vilaca turns to a vast range of historical, ethnographic and mythological material related to both the Wari’ and missionaries perspectives and the author’s own ethnographic field notes from her more than 30-year involvement with the Wari’ community. Developing a close dialogue between the Melanesian literature, which informs much of the recent work in the Anthropology of Christianity, and the concepts and theories deriving from Amazonian ethnology, in particular the notions of openness to the other, unstable dualism and perspectivism, the author provides a fine-grained analysis of the equivocations and paradoxes that underlie the translation processes performed by the different agents involved and their implications for the transformation of the native notion of personhood."--Provided by publisher..

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(OCoLC)938898680