Palet and Me: Memories of My Indigenous Father (Vilaa Aparecida)(Paperback)

Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Amricas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father. When Aparecida Vilaa 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 Palet and Me, Vilaa shares her life with her adoptive Wari' family, and the profound personal transformations involved in becoming kin. Palet--unfailingly charming, always prepared with a joke--shines with life in Vilaca'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
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