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Praying and Preying
Aparecida Vilaca
其他書名
Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2016-03-29
主題
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
0520289137
9780520289130
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DwslDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Praying and Preying
offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the WariÕ, inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes Mission. Vila�a turns to a vast range of historical, ethnographic and mythological material related to both the WariÕ and missionaries perspectives and the authorÕs own ethnographic field notes from her more than 30-year involvement with the WariÕ community. Developing a close dialogue between the Melanesian literature, which informs much of the recent work in the Anthropology of Christianity, and the concepts and theories deriving from Amazonian ethnology, in particular the notions of openness to the other, unstable dualism, and perspectivism, the author provides a fine-grained analysis of the equivocations and paradoxes that underlie the translation processes performed by the different agents involved and their implications for the transformation of the native notion of personhood. Ê