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God in the rainforest : a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador / Kathryn T. Long.
LIBRA BV2853.E3 A15 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Long, Kathryn, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missionaries--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)--Biography.
- Missionaries.
- Indians of South America--Missions--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru).
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Missions.
- South America--Napo River Valley.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- "Palm Beach" on the Curaray River
- The home front
- Sil and the "auca epic"
- The next steps
- An invitation to meet Dayomae's kin
- Peaceful contact
- A parting of the ways
- The (apparently) idyllic years
- Big oil, Waorani relocation, and polio
- Early anti-mission sentiment
- 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
- The Aguarico martyrs
- The New Testament in Wao Tededo
- David and Goliath
- Saving the rainforest
- Epilogue: the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Long, Kathryn, 1950- author. God in the rainforest
- ISBN:
- 9780190608989
- 0190608986
- OCLC:
- 1049576783
- Publisher Number:
- 99980263666
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