CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Jesuit Mission Ethnography

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction: Jesuit Mission Ethnography 1
7. Amerindian Languages and the Beginning of the Jesuit Mission to New France 27
8. Very Rich and Very Poor: Jesuit Missionary Linguistics in New France 55
9. Religious Conversion and Amerindian Cruelty in the Jesuit Relations 83
10. Messou the Great Restorer: Questioning Montagnais Religious Knowledge 113
11. Travelling Texts: Toward a Decentred Reading of Jesuit Mission Ethnography 140
12. The End(s) of Jesuit Mission Ethnography 171
13. Notes 177
14. Works Cited 223
15. Index 237