Masters and Students

Name: Masters and Students
SKU: 9780773545137
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Author: Micah True
ISBN: 9780773545137

Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvMicah True

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The word "mission" can suggest a distant and dangerous attempt to obtain information for the benefit of the home left behind. However, the term also applies to the movement of information in the opposite direction, as the primary motivation of those on religious missions is not to learn about another culture, but rather to teach their own particular worldview. In Masters and Students, Micah True considers the famous Jesuit Relations (1632-73) from New France as the product of two simultaneous missions, in which the Jesuit priests both extracted information from the poorly understood inhabitants of New France and attempted to deliver Europe's religious knowledge to potential Amerindian converts. This dual position of student and master provides the framework for the author's reflection on the nature of the Jesuits' "facts" about Amerindian languages, customs, and beliefs that are recorded in the Relations. Following the missionaries through the process of gaining access to New France, interacting with Amerindian groups, and communicating with Europe about the results of their efforts, Masters and Students explores how the Relations were shaped by the distinct nature of the Jesuit approach to their mission - in both senses of the word.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-02-27
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt397 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagMcGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN9780773545137

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"Masters and Students is a remarkable accomplishment and will have wide appeal for many different kinds of readers in different disciplines. Micah True writes with admirable clarity and brings his research together in an innovative and powerful way." Sara E. Melzer, Department of French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles "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