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God in the rainforest, a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador, Kathryn T. Long

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God in the rainforest, a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador, Kathryn T. Long

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

God in the rainforest

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1049576783

Responsibility statement

Kathryn T. Long

Sub title

a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador

Table Of Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: A missionary legend takes shape, 1956-1959. "Palm Beach" on the Curaray River -- The home front -- Part II: Tensions and competions, 1956-1958. A new departure -- The next steps -- An invitation to meet Dayomae's kin -- Part III: Life in Tewaeno, 1958-1968. Peaceful contact -- A parting of the ways -- The (apparently) idyllic years -- Part IV: Relocation, 1968-1973. Big oil, Waorani relocation, and polio -- Early anti-mission sentiment -- Part V: Access, 1974-1982. An anthropologist arrives -- Breaking a pattern of dependence -- ¡Fuera de aquí! (Get out of here!) -- Land, literacy, and "Quichua-ization" -- Catholics and the Waorani -- Leaving Ecuador -- Part VI: Transitions, 1982-1994. The Aguarico martyrs -- The New Testament in Wao Tededo -- David and Goliath -- Saving the rainforest -- Epilogue: the twenty-first century

Target audience

adult

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