God in the rainforest : a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador /
Long, Kathryn, 1950-
God in the rainforest : a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador / Kathryn T. Long. - xix, 446 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 competition, 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.
9780190608989 0190608986
2018016583
Missionaries--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)--Biography.
Indians of South America--Missions--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)
God in the rainforest : a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador / Kathryn T. Long. - xix, 446 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 competition, 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.
9780190608989 0190608986
2018016583
Missionaries--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)--Biography.
Indians of South America--Missions--Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)