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Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family Paperback - 2006

by Jean L. Briggs


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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.

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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 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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Portrait of an eskimo family. 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 unfold 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.

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  • Title Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
  • Author Jean L. Briggs
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.s.a.
  • Date July 28, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780674608283 / 0674608283
  • Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.71 x 5.66 x 1.25 in (22.12 x 14.38 x 3.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Eskimos - Social life and customs, Arctic regions - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 75105368
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.897
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