Masters and Students

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

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

Micah True is professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.Micah True is assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.

“Original, important, and based on sound scholarship, Masters and Students provides a key to a new understanding of a fundamental primary source for early America, and a filter through which the raw data and facts the Relations contain can be appreciated

“Critical of the tendency of recent scholarship to characterize the Jesuits as proto-ethnographers, True reminds readers that their texts need to be read as the record of two simultaneous missions (learning on the one hand, teaching on the other) in order

“A solid introduction to Jesuit ethnography for a wide variety of scholars.” American Historical Review

“A well-researched and evocative (re)examination of the Jesuit Relations. Masters and Servants should be on the shelves of all research libraries, and will be required reading for anyone interested in Jesuits missions, New France, ethnography, early trave