{"product_id":"paleto-and-me-memories-of-my-indigenous-father-paperback-softback-9781503629332","title":"Paletó and Me; Memories of My Indigenous Father (Paperback \/ softback) 9781503629332","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePaletó and Me\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMemories of My Indigenous Father\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAparecida Vilaça (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503629332\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 September 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 32 halftones, 3 maps\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In this extraordinary account, the rich experiences of a seasoned social anthropologist are superbly sustained by novelistic insights. Aparecida Vilaça takes us on a journey into a profoundly alien culture by entering the mind of one man, Paletó. His life spanned, it seemed, an entire history of human civilization. From an upbringing and early adulthood in an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon forest to the explosive, savage intrusions of modernity, his outlook remained deeply humane. Through him, Vilaça holds up a mirror to the unchanging fundamentals of human nature.\"—Ian McEwan \"Simple and profound, this book is a testament to an ethical, moral, and political commitment to the colonized peoples of America.\"—Casa de las Américas Prize committee \"When I read \u003ci\u003ePaletó and Me\u003c\/i\u003e, I had a wonderful revelation. Our ancestors, with wisdom and magic, foresaw an irrepressible capacity of people to affect worlds and to make families across cultures. And I gained a 'relative' in the talented writer Aparecida Vilaça, whose anthropology is made of affects between worlds.\"—Ailton Krenak, author of \u003ci\u003eIdeas to Postpone the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e \"The wonderful draw of \u003ci\u003ePaletó and Me\u003c\/i\u003e is the courage of one woman immersing herself in another culture and 'making relatives.' Through her acute observations, Aparecida Vilaça conveys a way of being to any reader who may not know how one indigenous community continues to exist.\"—Linda Hogan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Radiant Lives of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e \"Paletó and Aparecida's unlikely, potent kinship is narrated unforgettably in this book, without the narrator glossing over any of the violence of colonialism across which it happened. Kinship is always a surprise, never to be taken for granted. \u003ci\u003ePaletó and Me\u003c\/i\u003e shows how such a surprise continues to matter.\"—Donna Haraway, author of \u003ci\u003eStaying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene\u003c\/i\u003e \"In this fascinating account, Aparecida Vilaça at times effaces herself—concealed by her friend's lively voice—and at times reemerges in the luminous form of her singular and personal writing. Far from being a conventional anthropological text, \u003ci\u003ePaletó and Me\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the inebriating journey between identities that reveal themselves to be both ancient and fleeting.\"—Mia Couto, author of \u003ci\u003eSleepwalking Land\u003c\/i\u003e \"Written in a conversational tone and guided by memories, \u003ci\u003ePaletó and Me\u003c\/i\u003e is inspired by questions rather than conclusions and completely forsakes ideology, rendering Aparecida Vilaça's memories into a delightful story.\"—Paulo Roberto Pires, \u003ci\u003eÉpoca Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \"Vilaça manages to captivate us by letting her and Paletó's memories speak for themselves. Beautifully written, \u003ci\u003ePaletó and me\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a joy to read, but should become the model for anthropologists wishing to express the personal aspects of their fieldwork.\"—Niklas Hartmann, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e \"Not many anthropologists have opened the door to their shared 'home' and disclosed their experiences of kinship and loss. Fewer have managed to do so without imbuing their narrative with personal overtones that end up muddying the delicate yet important differences that articulate relations in the field. [\u003ci\u003ePaletó and Me\u003c\/i\u003e] can thus be seen as an index of personal and professional mourning, inevitably entangled, where memories and ethnography are engaged with as part of a process of detachment and renewal, the effects and potential inspiration of which are for each one of us to assess.\"—Paolo Fortis, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen 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 \u003ci\u003ePaletó and Me\u003c\/i\u003e, Vilaça shares her life with her adoptive Wari' family, and the profound personal transformations involved in becoming kin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaletó—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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBegun the day after Paletó's death at the age of 85, \u003ci\u003ePaletó and Me\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Death without Cannibalism\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Encounter\u003cbr\u003e  3. The Peccary Brother\u003cbr\u003e  4. The Houses\u003cbr\u003e  5. Escaping Death for the First Time\u003cbr\u003e  6. The First White and Other Wars\u003cbr\u003e  7. The Stone Axe, the Dream of Paris, and the Bachelor House\u003cbr\u003e  8. The Jaguar Mother-in-Law\u003cbr\u003e  9. The Wives\u003cbr\u003e  10. Escaping Death for the Second Time: The Massacre\u003cbr\u003e  11. The Bewitched Bride and Poison in the Houses\u003cbr\u003e  12. Meeting the Whites\u003cbr\u003e  13. Sexy\u003cbr\u003e  14. Talking with the Bishop and the Misunderstandings of Contact\u003cbr\u003e  15. The Epidemics\u003cbr\u003e  16. Guajará-Mirim, Brazil\u003cbr\u003e  17. Meeting the Missionaries\u003cbr\u003e  18. In the Land of the Priests\u003cbr\u003e  19. Becoming a Believer\u003cbr\u003e  20. One Coach Station, Two Airports, and a Titanium Leg\u003cbr\u003e  21. When the Water Meets the Clouds and the Fish-Men\u003cbr\u003e  22. The Animals Who Are People, the Big Rock, and the Bones of the Dead\u003cbr\u003e  23. The Slippery People and the Big Television\u003cbr\u003e  24. Making Kin\u003cbr\u003e  25. 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