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Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia Vanessa Grotti
Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia
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.
246 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 1, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9781800734586 |
| Publishers | Berghahn Books |
| Pages | 212 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 235 × 20 mm · 462 g |
| Language | English |