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social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > cultural/social anthropology > Joseph-François Lafitau
social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > key people in anthropology > Joseph-François Lafitau

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Joseph-François Lafitau  

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  • Joseph-François Lafitau was an important French Jesuit missionary scholar who closely observed the Mohawks and other Indians at the Jesuit mission of Sault-Saint-Louis opposite Montreal during the early 1700s. Social theorists describe him as a proto-anthropologist because he combined critical use of historic sources with careful (albeit not always accurate) use of the comparative method, with an insistence on the dignity of Native beliefs and the worthiness of their study. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Lafitau, Joseph-François]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-WF5ZV617-R

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