The region in Central Vietnam inhabited by the Bru. Enlargement based on the Vietnam Tourist Map Northern Section 1:1,500,000, Third Edition, 2002, by Zsolt Horváth, 2016.

The region in Central Vietnam inhabited by the Bru. Enlargement based on the Vietnam Tourist Map Northern Section 1:1,500,000, Third Edition, 2002, by Zsolt Horváth, 2016.

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In this paper, I present a short excerpt from an 18-hour-long Bru life history recorded in 1989 in the Central Vietnamese Highlands among the Bru/Vân Kiều of Quảng Trị. The excerpt sheds light on the circumstances of Christian evangelization among the Bru through the recollections of a Bru man who was not Christian himself but was in contact with t...

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... the sake of easier comprehension, a few things should be clarified first. The time is the 1960s-70s, the hottest phase of the civil war in Vietnam. The location is the mountainous woodlands in the central Vietnamese province of Quảng Tri, north of Hue ( Figs. 1-2), the demilitarized zone (DMZ) along the 17 th Parallel North which divided Vietnam into two antagonistic countries -the communist "North" (Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945-1975) and the American-backed "South" (Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975. 1 The Bru, among whom I did field research , live here along the old colonial Route 9, ...