Jean Briggs
American-born Canadian anthropologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean L. Briggs (May 28, 1929 – July 27, 2016) was an American-born anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and professor emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her best known works included the 1970 landmark book Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family, based on 18 months of research and field work in Inuit communities on the Arctic coast during the 1960s.[1][2]
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Born | (1929-05-28)May 28, 1929 Washington, D.C., United States |
Died | July 27, 2016(2016-07-27) (aged 87) |
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