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Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
by Jean L. Briggs
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- Comments: Revised ed. In the summer of 1963, anthropologist Jean Briggs journeyed to the Canadian Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) to begin a seventeen-month field study of the Utku, a small group of Inuit First Nations people who live at the mouth of the Back River, northwest of Hudson Bay. Living with a family as their adopted daughter-sharing their iglu during the winter and pitching her tent next to theirs in the summer-Briggs observed the emotional patterns of the...
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- ISBN-13: 9780674608283
- ISBN: 0674608283
- Edition: New Ed
- Publication Date: 1971
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Anthropologist Jean Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Eskimo family. Through vignettes of daily life she unfolds a warm and perceptive tale of the behavioral patterns of the Utku, their way of training children, and their handling of deviations from desired behavior.Jean L. Briggs is the author of 'Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family', published 1971 under ISBN 9780674608283 and ISBN 0674608283.
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