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Portrait of an Eskimo Family

By Jean L. Briggs

Summary

Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months in 1963 living among the Utku Inuit at the mouth of the Back River in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Adopted into a family, she observed their emotional patterns and daily interactions, offering an intimate portrayal of Utku life through vivid vignettes. The book reveals how the Utku train children towards adulthood and address behavioural norms, providing a unique insight into a rarely studied culture.
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Ideal for readers interested in anthropology, indigenous cultures, and emotional expression within social contexts, as well as students and educators seeking a detailed field study.

Anthropologist Jean L. 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 behavioural description of the Utku through a series of vignettes of individuals interacting with members of their family and with their neighbours. 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 behaviour.

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Publishers’ Weekly describes the book as "absorbingly and affectingly written," calling it "a remarkable book" and suggesting it will become an anthropological classic.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674608283

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 January 1971

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Illustration: 5 halftones, 5 line illustrations, 1 map

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 143.0mm

Height: 222.0mm

Weight: 562g

Pages: 408

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About the Author

Jean L. Briggs is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Memorial University.