Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
by Jean L. Briggs
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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A nice personal account of the author's visit to an Eskimo community. I think this is a book that many people outside of anthropology could enjoy since it's not theoretical. The author puts herself on center stage, assessing how the different family members in a small igloo reacted to her presence and how those reactions changed when she made social mistakes. A good book to read in the light of the bunsen burner.
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Common Knowledge
- Important places
- Canadian Arctic; Hudson Bay, Canada; Nunavut, Canada
- Dedication
- For Dorothy, Doris, and Alfred who taught me how rewarding a picture puzzle world can be,
for Ben and Sol who put up with the scattered pieces,
and for Cora who inspired this particular solution - First words
- In the summer of 1963 I went to the Canadian Northwest Territories to make a seventeen-month anthropological field study of the small group of Eskimos who live at the mouth of the Black River, northwest of Hudson Bay.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She and Inuttiaq both said: "I didn't think I'd care (huqu, naklik) when you left but I did (naklik)."
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- Genres
- Anthropology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 301.29 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Culture and cultural processes Ethnography, By Region
- LCC
- E99 .E7 .B75 — History of the United States America Indians of North America Indian tribes and cultures
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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