Praying and Preying: Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia Volume 19

by Aparecida Vilaça

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. Vila a turns to a vast range of historical, ethnographic and mythological material related to both the Wari' and missionaries perspectives and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520289145
• ISBN13: 9780520289147
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"