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
Summary
The Jesuit Relations re-evaluated in light of two concurrent missions - the Christianization of Amerindians and the extraction of information for France
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered pages 223-page 236) and index