La Plume et le calumet Joseph-François Lafitau et les « sauvages ameriquains »

Studying the “system of religion” invented by the Jesuit priest Joseph-François Lafitau in his Mœurs des sauvages ameriquains sheds light on the crucial role played by the “savage” at the intersection of the reception of ancient literature, the history of the modern sciences, and the history of religions in the eighteenth century.