| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America. Ed. by A. G. Roeber. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xxiv, 216 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-271-03346-4.)

A. G. Roeber has done a masterly job editing this collection of essays, originally presented at a conference on David Zeisberger in 2004. Not only was Zeisberger a celebrated Christian missionary to the Delaware, he was a linguist and an early ethnographer. His writings provide one of the few windows modern scholars have on the world of the eastern tribes, but as several authors in the volume note, that window is not perfectly transparent. Jane T. Merritt's examination of Native American women, for instance, highlights the relative absence of women in Zeisberger's writings. One of the strengths of Ethnographies and Exchanges is that it includes studies of French Jesuit missions in roughly the same period and geographical area as Zeisberger's mission. This allows the reader to look at the history of Christian missionaries from a different perspective, but it would have been interesting to have a final chapter identifying fruitful areas for comparative study of Jesuit and Moravian missions and ethnography.

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