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    Joseph-François Lafitau (French: [lafito]; May 31, 1681 – July 3, 1746) was a French Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and naturalist who worked in Canada...
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  • conductor and musicologist Joseph-François Lafitau (1681-1746), French Jesuit missionary and writer Joseph-François Lambert (1824-1873), French adventurer...
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    the French ethnologist and naturalist Joseph-François Lafitau in 1718. As a Jesuit missionary in New France, Lafitau discovered ginseng near Montreal in...
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    of the 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...
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    Laet's were repeated in later years. In the Age of Enlightenment, Joseph-François Lafitau asserted that while "acephalous" races were actually present in...
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  • appears to have been coined in 1724 by the Jesuit priest Father Joseph-François Lafitau (1681-1746) in his study Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées...
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    painted in this manner, on some part of the body. From 1712 to 1717, Joseph François Lafitau, another Jesuit missionary, recorded how Indigenous people were...
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  • accounts of Iroquois practices of gender was made by missionary Joseph-François Lafitau who spent six years among the Iroquois starting in 1711, and observed...
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    ἄρχειν arkhein, "to rule". The notion of matriarchy was defined by Joseph-François Lafitau (1681–1746), who first named it ginécocratie. According to the...
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    Preparing Black Drink, engraving by Joseph-François Lafitau, 1723...
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  • civilization of New France. The Moeurs des sauvages américains of Joseph-François Lafitau, Histoire de l'Amérique septentrionale of Bacqueville de la Potherie...
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  • observations of LGBT practices among native populations. Jesuit Joseph-François Lafitau spent six years among the Iroquois starting in 1711 where he made...
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  • firmly embedded in the minds of French scientists by the Jesuit Joseph-Francois Lafitau, who published a work showing the similarity between the customs...
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    26 May – Antoine-François Botot Dangeville, dancing master, dancer and ballet teacher (d. c.1737) 31 May – Joseph-François Lafitau, Jesuit missionary...
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  • March 20 – Nicolas de Largillière, painter (born 1656) July 3 – Joseph-François Lafitau, Jesuit missionary and naturalist (born 1681) August 11 – Nicolas-Hubert...
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    Louis de Thomassin (1682–1718) Pierre-François Lafitau (1720–1764) Louis-Jérôme de Suffren (1764–1789) François de Bovet (1789–1801) Catholic Church in...
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    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: selected writings...
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