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Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father. When Aparecida Vilaça first traveled down the remote Negro River in Amazonia, she expected to come back with notebooks and tapes full of observations about the Indigenous Wari' people—but not with a new father. In Paletó and Me, Vilaça shares her life with her adoptive Wari' family, and the profound personal transformations involved in becoming kin. Paletó—unfailingly charming, always prepared with a joke—shines with life in Vilaça's account of their unusual father-daughter relationship. Paletó was many things: he was a survivor, who lived through the arrival of violent invaders and diseases. He was a leader, who taught through laughter and care, spoke softly, yet was always ready to jump into the unknown. He could shift seamlessly between the roles of the observer and the observed, and in his visits to Rio de Janeiro, deconstructs urban social conventions with ease and wit. Begun the day after Paletó's death at the age of 85, Paletó and Me is a celebration of life, weaving together the author's own memories of learning the lifeways of Indigenous Amazonia with her father's testimony to Wari' persistence in the face of colonization. Speaking from the heart as both anthropologist and daughter, Vilaça offers an intimate look at Indigenous lives in Brazil over nearly a century.

Women ethnologists --- Pakaasnovos Indians --- Vilaça, Aparecida, --- Amazonia. --- Brazil. --- anthropology. --- epidemics. --- fieldwork. --- first contact. --- indigenous biography. --- life stories. --- memoir. --- personal account.

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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. Vilaça 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 the Melanesian literature, which informs much of the recent work in the Anthropology of Christianity, and the concepts and theories deriving from Amazonian ethnology, in particular the notions of openness to the other, unstable dualism, and perspectivism, the author provides a fine-grained analysis of the equivocations and paradoxes that underlie the translation processes performed by the different agents involved and their implications for the transformation of the native notion of personhood.

Conversion --- Missions, Brazilian --- Pakaasnovos Indians --- Christianity --- Indigenous peoples --- Brazilian missions --- Jarú Indians --- Oro Wari Indians --- Pacaa-novos Indians --- Pacaas Novos Indians --- Pacahanovo Indians --- Pacahnovo Indians --- Pacas Novas Indians --- Pakaa Nova Indians --- Pakaanova Indians --- Pakaanovas Indians --- Uari Wayõ Indians --- Uomo Indians --- Wari' Indians (Brazil) --- Indians of South America --- Religions --- Church history --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Christianity. --- History. --- Religion. --- New Tribes Mission --- New Tribes Mission, Chicago --- Misión Nuevas Tribus --- "Nuevas Tribus" (Missionary organization) --- Nuevas Misiones --- Misión a Nuevas Tribus --- MANT --- NT --- NTM --- Misión a las Nuevas Tribus --- A Nuevas Tribus (Missionary organization) --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- amazonian ethnology. --- anthropology of evangelical christianity. --- anthropology of missionary work. --- brazilian amazon. --- brazilian indigengous. --- christian amazon. --- christian amazonians. --- christian missionary work in the amazon. --- conversion of amazonian indigenous peoples. --- evangelical missionaries to south america. --- indigenous amazonians. --- melanesian literature. --- missionaries to south america. --- missionary work. --- native amazonians. --- new tribes mission. --- south american evangelicals. --- wari.