How Long to Read Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree

How Long Does it Take to Read Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 35 minutes to read Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree by Erick D. Langer

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as their jurisdictions. In Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree, Erick D. Langer examines one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America, the Franciscan missions among the Chiriguano Indians in southeastern Bolivia. Using that mission system as a model for understanding the relationship between indigenous peoples and missionaries in the post-independence period, Langer explains how the missions changed over their lifespan and how power shifted between indigenous leaders and the missionaries in an ongoing process of negotiation. Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree is based on twenty years of research, including visits to the sites of nearly every mission discussed and interviews with descendants of mission Indians, Indian chiefs, Franciscan friars, mestizo settlers, and teachers. Langer chronicles how, beginning in the 1840s, the establishment of missions fundamentally changed the relationship between the Chiriguano villages and national society. He looks at the Franciscan missionaries’ motives, their visions of ideal missions, and the realities they faced. He also examines mission life from the Chiriguano point of view, considering their reasons for joining missions and their resistance to conversion, as well as the interrelated issues of Indian acculturation and the development of the mission economy, particularly in light of the relatively high rates of Indian mortality and outmigration. Expanding his focus, Langer delves into the complex interplay of Indians, missionaries, frontier society, and the national government until the last remaining missions were secularized in 1949. He concludes with a comparative analysis between colonial and republican-era missions throughout Latin America.

How long is Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree?

Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree by Erick D. Langer is 392 pages long, and a total of 98,784 words.

This makes it 132% the length of the average book. It also has 121% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 59 minutes to read Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree aloud.

What Reading Level is Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree?

Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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