The domestication of savage bodies
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https://doi.org/10.14672/ada2003108%25pKeywords:
Shuar, Missions, Soul, Bodies, GesturesAbstract
The essay describes the impact of missionary action on the upper Amazonian Shuar’s habits. The missionaries brought linguistic and communicative forms, prosodic outlines, gestures, and movements adapted to the new subjectivities and physical and social spaces they were building. The Christian understanding of the soul and the representation of its relationship to the body played a decisive role in the introduction of new micro- and macro-gestures.
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