Masters and students : Jesuit mission ethnography in seventeenth-century New France /

True, Micah, 1981-

Masters and students : Jesuit mission ethnography in seventeenth-century New France / Jesuit mission ethnography in seventeenth-century New France Micah True. - Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xviii, 242 pages) : illustrations



Introduction : Jesuit mission ethnography -- Amerindian languages and the beginning of the Jesuit missiion to New France -- Very rich and very poor : Jesuit missionary linguistics in New France -- Religious conversion and Amerindian cruelty in the Jesuit Relations -- Messou the great restorer : questioning Montagnais religious knowledge -- Travelling texts : toward a decentred reading of Jesuit mission ethnography -- The end(s) of Jesuit mission ethnography.

The Jesuit Relations re-evaluated in light of two concurrent missions - the Christianization of Amerindians and the extraction of information for France.



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