Vanessa Grotti 
Nurturing the Other [PDF ebook] 
First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia

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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. 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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Inhoudsopgave

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Aå Note on the Orthography of Trio and Wayana
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Making of Christian Bodies: Kinship and Pacification in Daily Village Life
Chapter 2. Drinking with the Enemy: Social and Bodily Transformations at Communal Feasts
Chapter 3. Nurture as Predation: Contact Expeditions to the ‘Wild People’
Chapter 4. The Wealth of the Body: Materiality, Corporeality and Nurture in Central Guiana

Conclusion

References
Index

Over de auteur


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

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