206 research outputs found

    Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia.

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    Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders such as American missionaries through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana. The author examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transformation through the lens of the body, notions of peacefulness and kinship, as well as native warfare and shamanism. The book addresses questions of change and continuity, and the little explored links between first contacts, capture and native conversion to Christianity in contemporary indigenous Amazonia

    Lead isotopic ratios in the Arctic environment

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    Published data of lead isotopic ratios in the Arctic environment have been gathered in a dataset file (available as supplementary material) and reviewed to summarise the main information obtained for the different environmental compartments (atmosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere). The analytical procedures applied to achieve the precise measurement of this important environmental proxy are also illustrated and discussed. Finally, a general overview of the sources of atmospheric lead across the Arctic is provided
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