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In Twilight and in Dawn
Barnett Richling
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Description for In Twilight and in Dawn
Hardback. From New Guinea to the Arctic and beyond - the life and times of one of Canada's foremost anthropologists. Series: McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Num Pages: 440 pages, 20 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BG; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 865. Weight in Grams: 816.
When New Zealand-born and Oxford-educated anthropologist Diamond Jenness set aside hopes of building a career in the South Pacific to join Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, he had little idea of what lay ahead. But Jenness thrived under the duress of that transformational experience: the groundbreaking ethnographic work he accomplished, recounted in People of the Twilight and in Dawn in Arctic Alaska, proved to be a lasting contribution to twentieth-century anthropology, and the foundation of a career he would devote to researching Canada's first peoples. Barnett Richling draws upon a wealth of documentary sources to shed light on Jenness's tenure ... Read more
When New Zealand-born and Oxford-educated anthropologist Diamond Jenness set aside hopes of building a career in the South Pacific to join Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, he had little idea of what lay ahead. But Jenness thrived under the duress of that transformational experience: the groundbreaking ethnographic work he accomplished, recounted in People of the Twilight and in Dawn in Arctic Alaska, proved to be a lasting contribution to twentieth-century anthropology, and the foundation of a career he would devote to researching Canada's first peoples. Barnett Richling draws upon a wealth of documentary sources to shed light on Jenness's tenure ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Series
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773539815
SKU
V9780773539815
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About Barnett Richling
Barnett Richling is senior scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Winnipeg.
Reviews for In Twilight and in Dawn
"A first-rate biography." Winnipeg Free Press