Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 • The New Tribes Mission
2 • Versions versus Bodies: Translations in Contact
3 • The Encounter with the Missionaries
4 • Eating God’s Words: Kinship and Conversion
5 • Praying and Preying
6 • Strange Creator
7 • Christian Ritual Life
8 • Moral Changes
9 • Personhood and Its Translations
Conclusion

Notes
References
Index

About the Author

Aparecida Vilaca is Associate Professor at the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of Strange Enemies, Quem somos nos, and Comendo como gente and coeditor of Native Christians.

Reviews

"Praying and Preying is a remarkably original and important study." Anthropology Review Database