Nurturing the Other First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia By Vanessa Grotti Berghahn, 2022 Nurturing the Other combines archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, to study relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the...
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Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations Edited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto & Vanessa Grotti Berghahn Books, 2016 The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about...
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Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia By Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti & Olga Ultrugasheva Berghahn Books, 2014 Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity...
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