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Philippe Chanson, “Plus voir qu’avoir”, Jean de Léry, un calviniste du XVIe siècle, modèle d’ethnologie chez les Toüoupinambaoults du Brésil , Bulletin du Centre Protestant d’Etudes (CPE), November 2010, Genève, 87 p., to be ordered by email: cpe-geneve@swissonline.ch .

Philippe Chanson, “Plus voir qu’avoir”, Jean de Léry, un calviniste du XVIe siècle, modèle... The Rev’d Philippe Chanson worked as a missionary and anthropologist in the Caribbean and the Amazon region for a long time. Today he teaches at the theological faculty in Geneva. In addition to his many publications in the field of ethnology he has now published this booklet about Jean de Léry, who from 1555 to 1561 was involved in a missionary project initiated by Calvin himself in Brazil. Chanson’s study does not concentrate on the reason why this project failed; it focuses on Léry’s notes about his anthropological explorations among the local Amerindians. Almost 25 years after his return to Europe, Léry wrote a book in which he related his remarkable observations and missionary-theological reflections. He had already finished his work as a minister and had also issued some other publications. His new study attracted immediately the attention of people belonging to the missionary and academic ethnological circles of his time. In his Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévy-Strauss even qualified Léry’s study as ‘an ethnological breviary for every anthropological researcher’. Chanson appreciates the way Léry was present among the Amerindians. Léry did not keep distance, but participated in and shared their life. ‘He put himself completely in their shoes’ http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Exchange Brill

Philippe Chanson, “Plus voir qu’avoir”, Jean de Léry, un calviniste du XVIe siècle, modèle d’ethnologie chez les Toüoupinambaoults du Brésil , Bulletin du Centre Protestant d’Etudes (CPE), November 2010, Genève, 87 p., to be ordered by email: cpe-geneve@swissonline.ch .

Exchange , Volume 41 (3): 297 – Jan 1, 2012

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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0166-2740
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1572-543X
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10.1163/157254312X650612
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Abstract

The Rev’d Philippe Chanson worked as a missionary and anthropologist in the Caribbean and the Amazon region for a long time. Today he teaches at the theological faculty in Geneva. In addition to his many publications in the field of ethnology he has now published this booklet about Jean de Léry, who from 1555 to 1561 was involved in a missionary project initiated by Calvin himself in Brazil. Chanson’s study does not concentrate on the reason why this project failed; it focuses on Léry’s notes about his anthropological explorations among the local Amerindians. Almost 25 years after his return to Europe, Léry wrote a book in which he related his remarkable observations and missionary-theological reflections. He had already finished his work as a minister and had also issued some other publications. His new study attracted immediately the attention of people belonging to the missionary and academic ethnological circles of his time. In his Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévy-Strauss even qualified Léry’s study as ‘an ethnological breviary for every anthropological researcher’. Chanson appreciates the way Léry was present among the Amerindians. Léry did not keep distance, but participated in and shared their life. ‘He put himself completely in their shoes’

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