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Nurturing the other : first contacts and the making of Christian bodies in Amazonia / Vanessa Grotti.

"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 Fre...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Grotti, Vanessa Elisa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2022.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples > Suriname > Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples > French Guiana > Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples > Suriname > Religion.
Indigenous peoples > French Guiana > Religion.
Nomads > Sedentarization > Amazon River Region.
Christianity > Social aspects > Amazon River Region.
Missions, American > Amazon River Region > History.
Amazon River Region > Social conditions.
Amazon River Region > Religion.
Christianity > Social aspects.
Indigenous peoples > Religion.
Indigenous peoples > Social conditions.
Missions, American.
Nomads > Sedentarization.
Religion.
Social conditions.
Amazon River Region.
French Guiana.
Suriname.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The making of Christian bodies : kinship and pacification in daily village life
  • Drinking with the enemy : social and bodily transformations at communal feasts
  • Nurture as predation : contact expeditions to the 'wild people'
  • The wealth of the body : materiality, corporeality and nurture in central Guiana.

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