Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father.
When Aparecida Vilaça first traveled down the remote Negro River in Amazonia, she expected to come back with notebooks and tapes full of observations about the Indigenous Wari’ people—but not with a new father. In Paletó and Me, Vilaça shares her life with her adoptive Wari’ family, and the profound personal transformations involved in becoming kin.
Paletó—unfailingly charming, always prepared with a joke—shines with life in Vilaça’s account of their unusual father-daughter relationship. Paletó was many things: he was a survivor, who lived through the arrival of violent invaders and diseases. He was a leader, who taught through laughter and care, spoke softly, yet was always ready to jump into the unknown. He could shift seamlessly between the roles of the observer and the observed, and in his visits to Rio de Janeiro, deconstructs urban social conventions with ease and wit.
Begun the day after Paletó’s death at the age of 85, Paletó and Me is a celebration of life, weaving together the author’s own memories of learning the lifeways of Indigenous Amazonia with her father’s testimony to Wari’ persistence in the face of colonization. Speaking from the heart as both anthropologist and daughter, Vilaça offers an intimate look at Indigenous lives in Brazil over nearly a century.
Tabela de Conteúdo
1. Death without Cannibalism
2. The Encounter
3. The Peccary Brother
4. The Houses
5. Escaping Death for the First Time
6. The First White and Other Wars
7. The Stone Axe, the Dream of Paris, and the Bachelor House
8. The Jaguar Mother-in-Law
9. The Wives
10. Escaping Death for the Second Time: The Massacre
11. The Bewitched Bride and Poison in the Houses
12. Meeting the Whites
13. Sexy
14. Talking with the Bishop and the Misunderstandings of Contact
15. The Epidemics
16. Guajará-Mirim, Brazil
17. Meeting the Missionaries
18. In the Land of the Priests
19. Becoming a Believer
20. One Coach Station, Two Airports, and a Titanium Leg
21. When the Water Meets the Clouds and the Fish-Men
22. The Animals Who Are People, the Big Rock, and the Bones of the Dead
23. The Slippery People and the Big Television
24. Making Kin
25. The Farewell
Sobre o autor
Aparecida Vilaça is Professor of Social Anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of
Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia and
Praying and Preying: Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia. She has come and gone among the Wari’ since 1986.
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