Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
by Briggs, Jean L
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0674608259
- ISBN 13
- 9780674608252
- Seller
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About This Item
Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1972. Later prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 379 pp. .
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
- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS101799I
- Title
- Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
- Author
- Briggs, Jean L
- Illustrator
- Illus. with photos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- Later prt.
- ISBN 10
- 0674608259
- ISBN 13
- 9780674608252
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1972
- Bookseller catalogs
- anthropology;
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