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Drawing on the personal histories of one hundred evangelical missionaries in Ecuador, Echoes of the Call explores the lives of missionaries as sociological "strangers." In a study as compelling as it is insightful, Jeffrey Swanson illustrates how missionaries are distanced, not only from their culture and homeland, but also from their own era. The work begins with Swanson's interpretation of how his own experience as a child of missionaries shaped the viewpoint of estrangement from which the book is written. Swanson renders the formation of a missionary identity as the rhetorical composition of a personal testimony, in which life stories of separation, loss, conflict, and conversion are melded symbolically with historical mission themes of sacrifice, heroism, spiritual militancy, and divine calling. Relying on his subjects' own narratives, he traces the missionaries' personal journeys as their sense of calling first emerges, and then as it must be reinterpreted to account for unexpected, ambiguous, and often disillusioning experiences in their host country. Swanson argues that missionaries are marginal individuals who use their vocation creatively to produce a meaningful social world, and who use rhetoric effectively to maintain that world, for themselves and for supporters in their home countries. An informative and nuanced study, this book is a significant contribution to present sociological literature concerning missionaries and American evangelicals. Anyone interested in the sociology of religion, culture, and folklore will find Echoes of the Call to be a valuable and intriguing work. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on June 1, 1999. The length of the article is 3701 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: A new species of antwren (Myrmotherula fjeldsaai) closely related to Myrmotherula haematonota is described from the lower tropical zone of eastern Ecuador and immediately adjacent Peru. It primarily differs from M. h. haematonota by its brown instead of red back in both sexes. New distributional data for nominate M. h. haematonota shows that it meets the new species north of the Rio Maranon, between the Rios Napo and Pastaza, with no apparently significant physical barrier between them.

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Title: A new species in the Myrmotherula haematonota superspecies (Aves; thamnophilidae) from the western Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador and Peru.
Author: Niels Krabbe
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1999
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: 111Issue: 2Page: 157(9)

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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on June 1, 1999. The length of the article is 712 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: We present the first record of the Connecticut Warbler (Oporornis agilis)for Ecuador. The bird was mist-netted and photographed on 21 November 1996at Playa de Oro, Rio Santiago, Esmeraldas Province, northwestern Ecuador.

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Title: Connecticut warbler, a North American migrant new to Ecuador.
Author: Olaf Jahn
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1999
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: 111Issue: 2Page: 281(2)

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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brief but honest picture of Ecuador
This short book packs in a great deal of honest and accurate information about the beautiful, complex, culturally rich, and ecologically threatened country of Ecuador.It is not a tourist guide, but recommended for prospective visitors who want to understand the culture and politics of Ecuador, and understand it quickly.It is especially valuable for its summary of the destructive effects of the petroleum industry on the ecology and economy of the country, and for its its brief but accurate introduction to the country's powerful indigenous movement. It gives a sense of the country's cultural riches, and has some great color photos.

For those who want good solid information
If you are looking for a good overview of Ecuador without all of thetourist related fluff, this is the book for you. It briefly covers topicsfrom Ecuador's early history right up to present day politics, people andenviroment. ... Read more

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Ecuador is a nation of over 13 million people, its area between that of the states of Wyoming and Colorado. Like the United States, Ecuador's government features a democratically elected President serving for a four-year term. The Galápagos Islands, well known as the birthplace of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, are part of a province of Ecuador.

The History of Ecuador focuses primarily on the political history of Ecuador and how these past events impact the nation today. This text examines the traditions established by Ecuador's great caudillos (strong men) such as Juan José Flores, Gabriel García Moreno, and Eloy Alfaro, and documents the attempts of liberal leaders to modernize Ecuador by following the example of the United States. This book also discusses three economic booms in Ecuador's history: the Cacao Boom 1890-1914; the Banana Boom 1948-1960; and the Oil Boom 1972-1992.

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Blanca Muratorio introduces us to Rucuyaya Alonso, a Quichua elder from the Upper Ecuadorian Amazon. Grandfather Alonso's story spans a century, as his narrative incoporates oral tradition learned from both his father and grandfather. The book alternates between chapters of Alonso's life history, and chapters analyzing the history of the world around him--the domination of the missionaries and the state, the white settlers' expropriation of land, the debt-peonage system during the rubber boom, the world-wide crisis of the 1930s, and the booms and busts of the iternational oil market.Muratorio explains the larger social, economic, and ideological bases of white domination over native peoples in Amazonia. Her analysis of Quichua culture shows how through everyday practices of accommodation and resistance, and through expressions of humor, irony, and anger, the Quichua Indians were able to protect their cultural identity, their ethnic dignity, and their symbolic systems against the hegemonic forces of a white-dominated world. ... Read more

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A must-read for any student of Ecuador's upper Napo region.
Dr. Muratorio does an excellent job at combining first person oral narratives with a well-researched historical discussion and critique of the Pano Runa of Ecuador's upper Napo region.Employing James Scott's model ofresistance, Muratorio demonstrates how the Runa have employed diversestrategies to struggle against hegemonic forces from missionaries andrubber barons, to the assimilationist state apparatus.The book highlightsthe cultural value of the Rucuyaya or grandfather, and laments thedisaggregation of traditional family structures under the constraints ofnew economic arrangements.The book was originally published in Spanishunder the title "Rucuyaya Alonso." ... Read more

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Ecuador. History of Ecuador, Ecuadorian War of Independence, History of the Ecuadorian?Peruvian territorial dispute, Politics of Ecuador, Geography of Ecuador, Economy of Ecuador, Demographics of Ecuador, Religion in Ecuador, Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, Culture of Ecuador, Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Social History, published by Journal of Social History on December 22, 2009. The length of the article is 1031 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Gender, Indian, Nation: The Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925.(Book review)
Author: Robert L. Smale
Publication: Journal of Social History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2009
Publisher: Journal of Social History
Volume: 43Issue: 2Page: 499(3)

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Chapters: Amazon Rainforest, Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes Mangroves. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Amazon rainforest (in Portuguese, Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: ), also known as Amazonia or Amazon jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, and with minor amounts in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. The Amazon rainforest was short-listed in 2008 as a candidate to one of the New7Wonders of Nature by the New Seven Wonders of the World Foundation. As of February 2009 the Amazon was ranking first in Group E, the category for forests, national parks and nature reserves. The name Amazon is said to arise from a war Francisco de Orellana fought with a tribe of Tapuyas and other tribes from South America. The women of the tribe fought alongside the men, as was the custom among the entire tribe. Orellana's descriptions may have been accurate, but a few historians speculate that Orellana could have been mistaking indigenous men wearing "grass skirts" for women. Orellana derived the name Amazonas from the ancient Amazons of Asia and Africa described by Herodotus and Diodorus in Greek l...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=48139 ... Read more

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Chapters: Constitutional History of Ecuador, Case No. 111-97-Tc, Constitutional Tribunal of Ecuador, Abortion in Ecuador, Capital Punishment in Ecuador. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ecuador's first constitution as a republic was established in 1830, following the country's independence from Gran Colombia. Ecuador has had a total of twenty constitutions over the course of its history, which can be seen as a symptom of Ecuador's chronic instability. After several years of political crisis, the government of Rafael Correa, elected in 2005 following the dismissal of Lucio Gutiérrez by Congress, proposed a new Magna Carta for the country with the goal of stability and social development. This constitution, approved in 2008, is the last episode of Ecuador's constitutional history. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24761158 ... Read more