Virgínia Amaral

Areruya and Indigenous Prophetism in Northern Amazonia, based on four years of ethnographic research, discusses the presence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous religious movement practised by the Ingarikó in Northern Amazonia. Tracing the role of 19th-century missionaries in the region, the book shows how shamans started to announce the coming of a cataclysm, associated with the promise of indigenous...