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Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America. Edited by A. G. Roeber. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 240 pp. Notes, index. $45.)
      How reliable are the observations about Indian cultures recorded by Euro-Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and how well are current scholars able to interpret the meanings of their texts, especially in translation? What are the limitations faced by translators and translations, both then and now, in conveying the meaning of words spoken and written by unfamiliar peoples in unfamiliar languages? What motives and mentalities characterized the minds of European missionaries as they encountered Native Americans? What methods did they employ as they endeavored to mediate the Christian message to potential Indian converts? And how did native men and women respond to those overtures as they looked for means to ensure the well-being of themselves, their families, and their communities? . . .
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