Praying and Preying Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia

"This volume is an outstanding model of how ethnography and theory can illuminate each other. Drawing on a sophisticated command of anthropology’s central debates and decades of careful research with the Wari', Aparecida Vilaça’s masterful discussion is a real gem."—Webb Keane, author of Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter

"This book will be something of a milestone in the long journey anthropology has made in the company of people facing vast changes in their lives. Vilaça brings to a new level recent probings of Christian practice: as it becomes a vehicle through which the Amazonian Wari' give shape to their world, Christianity itself shifts, and it is no longer quite the perspective on change an outsider might have thought. Frankly and lucidly written, this is a superb testimony to the openness of first-hand inquiry." —Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge

 

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Aparecida Vilaça is Associate Professor at the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of Strange Enemies, Quem somos nós, and Comendo como gente and coeditor of Native Christians. 

Zusammenfassung

Offers an anthropological monograph 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.

Zusatztext

"Praying and Preying is a remarkably original and important study."

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Aparecida Vilaca, Aparecida Vilaoca, Aparecida Vila&, Aparecida Vilaça, Aparecida Vilaça, Vilaca Aparecida
• Verlag: University Of California Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.03.2016
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sonstiges; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Christentum
• EAN: 9780520289130
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28913-0
• Anzahl Seiten: 330
• Serie: The Anthropology of Christianity; The Anthropology of Christianity > 19
• Themen: Brazil, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology