In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, a group of Wari Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari announced, We touched their bodies Meanwhile the whites reported to their own people that the region s most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase Initially published in Brazil, Strange Enemies is an ethnographic narrative of the first encounters between these peoples with radically different worldviews.
During the 1940s and 1950s,...
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, a group of Wari Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officer...
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, a group of Wari Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari announced, We touched their bodies Meanwhile the whites reported to their own people that the region s most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase Initially published in Brazil, Strange Enemies is an ethnographic narrative of the first encounters between these peoples with radically different worldviews.
During the 1940s and 1950s,...
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, a group of Wari Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officer...
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 Wari', inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes Mission. VilaCa turns to a vast range of historical, ethnographic and mythological material related to both the Wari' and missionaries perspectives and the author's own ethnographic field notes from her more than 30-year involvement with the Wari' community. Developing a close dialogue...
Praying and Preying offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples,...
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 Wari, inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes Mission. Vilaca turns to a vast range of historical, ethnographic and mythological material related to both the Wari and missionaries perspectives and the author s own ethnographic field notes from her more than 30-year involvement with the Wari community. Developing a close dialogue between...
Praying and Preying offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples,...
