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God in the rainforest : a tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Long, Kathryn, 1950- (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Indians of South America > Missions > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru)
Missionaries > Napo River Valley (Ecuador and Peru) > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • "Palm Beach" on the Curaray River
  • The home front
  • A new departure
  • 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.