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.