Carl F. Starkloff SJ, Common Testimony: Ethnology and Theology in the Customs of Joseph Lafitau

The work of the eighteenth-century Jesuit Joseph Lafitau contains such a wealth of ethnological data that researchers even today regard it as a gold mine for understanding Native American cultures. This book examines a dimension of Lafitau's work that has not been explored in depth, specifically his presuppositions and positions, and it leads the reader to an appreciation of the insights he had of human values and especially of religion. If Lafitau had any ‘thesis’, it is that human beings are all children of the same God and members of the same human race.

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