- Joseph-François
Lafitau (French: [lafito]; May 31, 1681 – July 3, 1746) was a
French Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and
naturalist who
worked in Canada...
- soon die,
despite protests to the
contrary by
Lafitau. On 14 March,
Clement XI took ill
while Lafitau was
trying to get the pope's
nephew to persuade...
-
Lafitau in 1718. As a
Jesuit missionary in New France,
Lafitau discovered ginseng near
Montreal in 1716. In his
search for a specimen,
Father Lafitau...
-
embedded in the
minds of
French scientists by the
Jesuit Joseph-Francois
Lafitau, who
published a work
showing the
similarity between the
customs of aborigines...
- name,
spelled Rontaks, was in 1729 by
French missionary Joseph-François
Lafitau. He
explained that the word was used by the
Iroquois as a
derogatory term...
- p. 75. ISBN 978-0-7425-1189-7. Maine,
Henry Sumner.
Ancient Law 1861.
Lafitau,
Joseph François,
cited by Campbell,
Joseph in, Myth, religion, and mother-right:...
- "Histoire des découvertes et conquêtes des
Portugais dans le
Nouveau Monde,"
Lafitau described the
natives as
people who wore no
clothing but
painted their...
- arkhein, "to rule". The
notion of
matriarchy was
defined by Joseph-François
Lafitau (1681–1746), who
first named it ginécocratie.
According to the OED, the...
- of
Iroquois practices of
gender was made by
missionary Joseph-François
Lafitau who
spent six
years among the
Iroquois starting in 1711, and
observed "women...
- (1579-1652) -
bishop René
Descartes (1596-1650) -
philosopher Joseph-François
Lafitau (1681-1746) -
Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and
naturalist Georges Vacher...
