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Book Synopsis
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.

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"Praying and Preying is a remarkably original and important study." Anthropology Review Database

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 • The New Tribes Mission
2 • Versions versus Bodies: Translations in Contact
3 • The Encounter with the Missionaries
4 • Eating God’s Words: Kinship and Conversion
5 • Praying and Preying
6 • Strange Creator
7 • Christian Ritual Life
8 • Moral Changes
9 • Personhood and Its Translations
Conclusion

Notes
References
Index

Praying and Preying

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/29/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780520289147, 978-0520289147
      ISBN10: 0520289145
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      Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Christianity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "Praying and Preying is a remarkably original and important study." Anthropology Review Database

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments

      Introduction
      1 • The New Tribes Mission
      2 • Versions versus Bodies: Translations in Contact
      3 • The Encounter with the Missionaries
      4 • Eating God’s Words: Kinship and Conversion
      5 • Praying and Preying
      6 • Strange Creator
      7 • Christian Ritual Life
      8 • Moral Changes
      9 • Personhood and Its Translations
      Conclusion

      Notes
      References
      Index

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