Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family by Briggs, Jean L - 2001

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xxi, 379pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
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 behavioral description of the Utku through a series of vignettes of individuals interacting with members of their family and with their neighbors. 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 behavior.(Publisher).