Abstract
Early modern travel writers often compared the NewWorld’s inhabitants to more familiar cultures. The French traveler Marc Lescarbot is a prominent example. Compared to other cultures, Amerindians emerge in his Histoire de la Nouvelle France (1609) as a favorable model for France to emulate. This article examines an overlooked point of comparison that superficially would seem to undermine Lescarbot’s favorable outlook on the Amerindian: the Turk. Lescarbot wrote about Turks in surprisingly positive terms, a fact that brings nuance to scholarly understandings of seventeenth-century France’s perception of the Ottoman Other, as well as the nature of colonial comparative ethnography.
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