Joseph-François Lafitau
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Joseph-François Lafitau was a French Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and naturalist who worked in Canada. He is best known for his use of the comparative method in the field of scientific anthropology, the discovery of American ginseng, and his writings on the Iroquois.
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Reverend Joseph-François Lafitau, engraving of 1858 by Walker
Canadian ginseng, in Chinese gin-seng, in Mohawk garent-oguen: L'aureliana de Canada, en chinois gin-seng, en iroquois garent-oguen
Lafitau described ginseng growing in Canada, illustration redrawn by Walker![Daily lives of Indians in New France (eighteenth century)[32]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Vie_quotidienne_des_Am%C3%A9rindiens_en_Nouvelle-France_%28XVIIIe_si%C3%A8cle%29.jpg/1280px-Vie_quotidienne_des_Am%C3%A9rindiens_en_Nouvelle-France_%28XVIIIe_si%C3%A8cle%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Daily lives of Indians in New France (eighteenth century)[32]![Manufacture of maple syrup by Native Americans in New France (eighteenth century)[33]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Fabrication_du_sirop_d%27%C3%A9rables_par_les_Am%C3%A9rindiens_en_Nouvelle-France_%28XVIIIe_si%C3%A8cle%29.jpg/1280px-Fabrication_du_sirop_d%27%C3%A9rables_par_les_Am%C3%A9rindiens_en_Nouvelle-France_%28XVIIIe_si%C3%A8cle%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Manufacture of maple syrup by Native Americans in New France (eighteenth century)[33]Religious Figures from France 6
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Joseph-François Lafitau was a French Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and naturalist who worked in Canada. He is best known for his use of the comparative method in the field of scientific anthropology, the discovery of American ginseng, and his writings on the Iroquois. Lafitau was the first of the Jesuit missionaries in Canada to have a scientific point of view. Francis Parkman praises Lafitau, stating, "none of the old writers are so satisfactory as Lafitau."
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