Jungle jewels & jaguars
Subtitle: living with the Amueshas translating God's word
By: Martha Duff Tripp
Publisher: Harvest Day Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Traverse City, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780979083457
Subjects: Translating; Amuesha Indians; Missions; Evangelistic work; Amuesha (Indiens); Évangélisation; Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344).
Table of contents: title: Weak knees; title: Nothing to it; title: Rain in our faces; title: Reducing a language to writing; title: Cohuentena Arrorr (the moon is pretty); title: Shoeboxes and morphemes; title: Pepe; title: Child witches; title: Worms, lice, and bonding; title: Is there a doctor in the house?; title: Cherry pie in the jungle?; title: Photo op; title: Our first sic-month break; title: Going back to Stingray Village; title: Starting to analyze the grammar of this language; title: The fish bash; title: Jungle celebrities; title: Our first new home in the rainforest; title: Catalina and storying; title: Writing our first linguistic papers; title: Vacation time; title: Spiders in our soup; title: Puberty party; title: Singing water village; title: Jungle jewels; title: A man called Peter; title: White water rafting in the headwaters of the Amazon; title: Bilingual teacher training course; title: Our first trip to Singing Water Village; title: Bilingual teachers become spiritual leaders; title: making merry to "Our father," (the sun); title: Opposition from the Shaman; title: Visiting the Amuesha bilingual schools; title: More jungle jewels for Jesus; title: Books for bilingual schools; title: Back to Stingray Village again; title: Committing our ways to the Lord; title: Finishing our fifth year with the Amueshas; title: Back to Peru after home leave; title: "All thy children shall be taught of the Lord"; title: Go tell it on the mountain; title: The entrance of your Word gives light; title: From apprentice with the Shaman to apprentice with the Bible teacher; title: "This is what we've been looking for"; title: The first baptized Amuesha believers; title: Indigenous churches develop; title: Finishing the translation of the New Testament; title: The printing and dedication of the New Testament; title: The presentation of the Amuesha grammar book and the dictionary.