Nurturing the Other : : First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia / / Vanessa Grotti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Grotti, Vanessa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; A 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800734593; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800734593
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 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.