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

Name: Nurturing the Other
Brand: Berghahn Books
SKU: 9781800734586
Price: 18100 KES
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ISBN: 9781800734586

by Vanessa Grotti

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1800734581

ISBN-13 9781800734586

Publisher Berghahn Books

Imprint Berghahn Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 1st, 2022

Print length 212 Pages

Weight 462 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 16.00 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Christian mission & evangelism Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography

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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.

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.

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