Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
by Briggs, Jean L
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0674608283
- ISBN 13
- 9780674608283
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Bridgewater , Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
"Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family." by Jean L. Briggs. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, [1970]. pp. 379. a few b. & w. illus. Paperback (lower front corner bent, spine faded & top of spine worn, some surface wear on back cover, price sticker on front cover, owner's signature on front free endpaper).
Very Good condition.
Size: 8 3/8" x 5 3/8" (21cm x 13.5cm).
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Bazaar of Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A138
- Title
- Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
- Author
- Briggs, Jean L
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0674608283
- ISBN 13
- 9780674608283
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1970
- Pages
- 379
- Keywords
- Eskimo, Inuit, Indigenous people
- Bookseller catalogs
- Indigenous people- Canada;
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