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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.
What are we to make of statements that jaguars see themselves as
humans, or of doubts about the boundary between dreams and waking?
Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book
investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported
in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy, concerning humans,
animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature,
life, death, disease and health. The study’s twin aims are first
to explore the possibility of achieving a better understanding of
the materials we discuss and then to see what lessons we can draw
from them to challenge and revise our own fundamental assumptions.
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