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Portrait of an Eskimo Family

By (author) Jean L. Briggs
Genres: Anthropology
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, United States
Published: 1st Jan 1971
Dimensions: w 142mm h 219mm d 32mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN-10: 0674608283
ISBN-13: 9780674608283
Barcode No: 9780674608283
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Synopsis
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 Utku in the context of their daily life. In this perceptive and highly enjoyable volume the author presents a behavioral description of the Utku through a series of vignettes of individuals interacting with members of their family and with their neighbors. Finding herself at times the object of instruction, she describes the training of the child toward achievement of the proper adult personality and the handling of deviations from this desired behavior.

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Absorbingly and affectingly written. A remarkable book...one that bids to become an anthropological classic. * Publishers' Weekly *