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Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples—Suriname—Social conditions [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples—French Guiana—Social conditions [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples—Suriname—Religion [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples—French Guiana—Religion [Browse]
• Nomads—Sedentarization—Amazon River Region [Browse]
• Christianity—Social aspects—Amazon River Region [Browse]
• Missions, American—Amazon River Region—History [Browse]
• Amazon River Region—Social conditions [Browse]
• Amazon River Region—Religion [Browse]

Summary note

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The making of Christian bodies : kinship and pacification in daily village life
• Drinking with the enemy : social and bodily transformations at communal feasts
• Nurture as predation : contact expeditions to the 'wild people'
• The wealth of the body : materiality, corporeality and nurture in central Guiana.

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ISBN

• 9781800734586 (hardcover)
• 1800734581 (hardcover)

LCCN

2021052769

OCLC

1265347792

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