Reviewed by G.E.R. Lloyd (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge UK). This is a truly remarkable book. In most anthropological monographs the reader is given a detailed analysis of one particular collectivity, the circumstances of their lives, their kinship relations, social structures, myths, rituals, ways of making sense of the world and of their place in it.
Amazonia
High, “A Little Bit Christian”
High, Casey. 2016. “A Little Bit Christian”: Memories of Conversion and Community in Post-Christian Amazonia. American Anthropologist. DOI: 10.1111/aman.12526 Abstract: Conversion to Christianity in Amazonia …
Vilaça, “Praying and Preying”
Vilaça, Aparecida. 2016. Praying and preying: Christianity in indigenous Amazonia. Berkeley: University of California Press. Publisher’s Description: Praying and Preying offers one of …
Robbins, Schieffelin, and Vilaça, “Evangelical Conversion and the Transformation of the Self in Amazonia and Melanesia”
Robbins, Joel, Bambi B, Schieffelin, and Aparecida Vilaça. 2014. Evangelical Conversion and the Transformation of the Self in Amazonia and …
Luzar and Fragoso, “Shamanism, Christianity, and Culture”
Luzar, Jeffrey B. and Jose M. V. Fragoso. 2013. Shamanism, Christianity, and Culture Change in Amazonia. Human Ecology 41(2):299-311. Abstract: …
Lebner, “A Christian Politics of Friendship on a Brazilian Frontier”
Lebner, Ashley. 2012. A Christian Politics of Friendship on a Brazilian Frontier. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 77(4):496-517. Abstract This paper explores …
Brightman, “Maps and Clocks”
Brightman, Marc. 2012. Maps and Clocks in Amazonia: the things of conversion and conversation. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute …
Vilaca, “Dividuality in Amazonia”
Vilaca, Aparecida. 2011. Dividuality in Amazonia: God, the Devil, and the constitution of personhood in Wari Christianity. Journal of the …