Never in Anger by Jean L Briggs

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Never in Anger by Jean L Briggs

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Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the “adopted daughter” of an Inuit family. Through vignettes of daily life she unfolds a warm and perceptive tale of the behavioral patterns of the Utku people, their way of training children, and their handling of deviations from desired behavior.

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Never in Anger by Jean L Briggs

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.
Absorbingly and affectingly writtenA remarkable book…one that bids to become an anthropological classic. * Publishers’ Weekly *
Jean L. Briggs is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Memorial University.
SKU GOR002542422
ISBN 13 9780674608283
ISBN 10 0674608283
Title Never in Anger
Author Jean L Briggs
Condition Very good
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Harvard University Press
Year published 1971-01-01
Number of pages 408
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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