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Author True, Micah, 1981- author.

Title Masters and students : Jesuit mission ethnography in seventeenth-century New France / Micah True
Published Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 242 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Jesuits -- Missions -- Canada -- History -- 17th century
SUBJECT Jesuits fast
Jesuiten gnd
Subject Indians of North America -- Missions -- Canada -- History -- 17th century
Indians of North America -- Canada -- History -- 17th century
Indians -- History -- 17th century -- Canada
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
Indians
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Missions
Missions
Ethnische Beziehungen
Indianer
Mission
SUBJECT Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019310
Subject Canada
Neufrankreich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773581999
0773581995
9780773582002
0773582002
Other Titles Jesuit mission ethnography in seventeenth-century New France