The Lost Dictionary - a History of the Chin People, the Newland Family and the American Baptist Chin Mission
The Lost Dictionary - a History of the Chin People, the Newland Family and the American Baptist Chin Mission

Author: Wim Vervest

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Published: 2014

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781925086621

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Once upon a time there was a dictionary, complete with anthropological footnotes, which recorded the culture and language of the Chin people; but the dictionary was ignored by the incoming Baptist missionaries and forgotten for a century, perhaps because its creator refused to condemn the Chins' animist religion. This is the story of Surgeon-Major Arthur Newland, the pioneering photo-journalist who gave the Chins their written language; of his Chin wife Sina and their son Major Sam Newland D.S.O., hero of the wartime "Z Force Johnnies"; of the missionaries who converted the Chins to Christianity and of the Chin people themselves, a complex feudal society living in one of the most inaccessible regions on Earth.