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This contribution presents and analyzes the work of the Jesuit missionary \nJohann Jakob Baegert who was born in Alsatia in 1717 and sent to the Californian \nPeninsula in the mid-eighteenth century, in a threefold perspective: in the first part \nthe specific characteristics of Baegert’s biography are presented and pointed out; the \nsecond part considers Baegert’s main work, the Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen \nHalbinsel Californien (Nouvelles de la presqu’île américaine de Californie) published in \nGerman in 1772 in Mannheim, as an ethnographic counter-discourse directed abstracts 381 \nagainst dominant European visions of South America and Lower California, \nexemplified in the article on the subject published by Bruzen de la Martinière in his \nGrand Dictionnaire géographique, historique et critique (1723). Finally, the third part of \nthe contribution analyzes the anthropological dimensions of Baegert’s discourse, \nespecially the use of comparisons and the perception of intercultural encounters \nand cultural particularities in his main work as well as in letters addressed to his \nbrother, which were published in an Alsatian periodical.