Aparecida Vilaca - Praying and Preying: Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia

My field research among the Wari was funded by Finep, Faperj (Cientista do Nosso Estado 20122014), CNPq (Edital Universal 20112013; Produtividade em Pesquisa 20032015), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (International Collaborative GrantICRG 40), and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (Latin America and Caribbean Competition 2007). I thank Carlo Bonfigglioli and the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, as well as the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH, Cambridge, United Kingdom) for the Visiting Scholarships that enabled me to discuss chapters and arguments from this book, and Kings College, Cambridge, for my appointment as a Senior Associate in 2014.

My thanks for the support and intellectual stimulation of my colleagues from the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology of the Museu Nacional of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, especially Carlos Fausto, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, Otvio Velho, and the late Gilberto Velho. And to my translator, David Rodgers, for our second large venture together.

Other colleagues around the world discussed my work on Wari Christianity with me on numerous occasions, whether in seminars, conversations, or through intense virtual correspondence. I am especially grateful to Anne-Christine Taylor, Cristina Osward, Geoffrey Lloyd, Marilyn Strathern, Mark Mosko, Marshall Sahlins, Naomi Haynes, Peter Gow, Peter Rivire, Philippe Descola, Piers Vitebsky, Rupert Stasch, and Stephen Hugh-Jones. This book would have been impossible without my close collaboration over the years with Joel Robbins and Bambi Schieffelin, who guided me through this new field of studies and into a beautiful friendship. I also thank my editor Reed Malcolm and UCPs anonymous reviewers for their attentive reading of the manuscript and excellent suggestions.

Passages of this book appeared in earlier forms as parts of chapters published in A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion (Wiley Blackwell) and Native Christians (Ashgate) and as parts of articles published in the journals Mana: Estudos de Antropologia Social, Journal de la Socit des Amricanistes, LHomme, Ethnos, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Current Anthropology, Cambridge Anthropology, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. I thank the editors for permission to use the revised versions here.

Beth Conklin, a close friend and fellow specialist in the Wari, became three times my comadre when, on a boat trip in Wariland, she baptized the book. Archaeologist Duan Bori accompanied us on two field trips and in the work of extending the limits of the Rio NegroOcaia Indigenous Land.