Marius Barbeau
Date of Birth :
1883-05-03
Place of Birth :
Sainte-Mari,France
Country :
France
Field of Expertise :
Geological archaeology
Educational background :
Law at Laval University
Anthropology from Oxford University.
Acheivements / Contributions :
Marius Barbeau,was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology.
He is best known for the following:
An early championing of Québécois folk culture.
For his exhaustive cataloguing of the social organization.
Narrative and musical traditions.
Plastic art’s of the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples in British Columbia (Tsimshian, Gitxsan, and Nisga'a), and other Northwest Coast peoples.
For his unconventional theories of the peopling of the Americas.
In 1950 he won the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal.
source:
Marius Barbeau
Bibliography :
Art of the Totem: Totem Poles of the Northwest Coastal Indians ,
Marius Barbeau's Photographic Collection: The Nass River (Canadian Museum of Civilization Mercury Series),
Folk Songs Of French Canada.
