Paleto and Me av Aparecida Vilaca

299,-

Kjøp

<p><b>Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Am¿cas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father.</b></p><p>When Aparecida Vila¿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 <i>Palet¿ and Me</i>, Vila¿shares her life with her adoptive Wari'' family, and the profound personal transformations involved in becoming kin.</p><p>Palet¿¿unfailingly charming, always prepared with a joke¿shines with life in Vila¿'s account of their unusual father-daughter relationship. Palet¿ 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,