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Book SynopsisThe Jesuit Relations re-evaluated in light of two concurrent missions - the Christianization of Amerindians and the extraction of information for France.
Trade Review" 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 " 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 to grasp their full significance. For True, only renewed attention to the dualistic dynamics present in Jesuit mission ethnography can arrest what he identifies as a historical trend that has increasingly amplified the historical voice of the Jesuits while silencing that of Native peoples. Highly recommended." Choice
