| Description |
1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
"Originally published in Portuguese in 2018 under the title Paletó e eu : memórias de meu pai indígena." |
| Contents |
Death without Cannibalism -- Encounter -- Peccary Brother -- Houses -- Escaping Death for the First Time -- First White and Other Wars -- Stone Axe, the Dream of Paris, and the Bachelor House -- Jaguar Mother-in-Law -- Wives -- Escaping Death for the Second Time: The Massacre -- Bewitched Bride and Poison in the Houses -- Meeting the Whites -- Sexy -- Talking with the Bishop and the Misunderstandings of Contact -- Epidemics -- Guajará-Mirim, Brazil -- Meeting the Missionaries -- In the Land of the Priests -- Becoming a Believer -- One Coach Station, Two Airports, and a Titanium Leg -- Where the Water Meets the Clouds and the Fish-Men -- Animals Who Are People, the Big Rock, and the Bones of the Dead -- Slippery People and the Big Television -- Making Kin -- Farewell. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958-
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Paletó, -2017.
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Pakaasnovos Indians -- Brazil -- Biography.
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Pakaasnovos Indians. |
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Brazil. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women ethnologists -- Brazil -- Biography.
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Women ethnologists. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Rodgers, David (Translator), translator.
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| Added Title |
Paletó e eu. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2021046563
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958- Paletó e eu. English. Paletó and me. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021 9781503629349 (DLC) 2021018476 |
| ISBN |
9781503629349 electronic book |
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1503629341 electronic book |
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9781503629332 paperback |
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