In twilight and in dawn : a biography of Diamond Jenness / Barnett Richling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richling, Barnett.

Series:

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 67.

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969.

Jenness, Diamond.

National Museum of Canada.

Anthropologists--Canada--Biography.

Anthropologists.

National Museum of Canada--Officials and employees--Biography.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 413 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.

Summary:

When New Zealand-born, Oxford-educated anthropologist Diamond Jenness set aside hopes of a career in the south Pacific to join Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, he had little idea of what lay ahead. But Jenness thrived under the duress of that transformational experience: his groundbreaking ethnographic work, recounted in People of the Twilight and Dawn in Arclic Alaska, became a lasting contribution to twentieth-century anthropology, and the foundation of a career devoted to researching Canada's first peoples. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Antipodean Arcadia, 1886-1908 3

2 The Second Horse, 1908-1911 19

3 On a Bwaidokan Veranda, 1911-1912 36

4 Chance and Necessity, 1913-1914 55

5 Kiss of the White Man, 1914-1916 87

6 In the Trenches, 1916-1919 111

7 An Unloved Stepchild, 1919-1931 127

8 Peoples of Memory, 1921 154

9 Jostling Tribes, 1923-1924 171

10 Ancestors and Cradles, 1926 195

11 A Sisyphean Puzzle, 1927-1935 222

12 Turning the Page, 1929-1936 245

13 Behind High Walls, 1936-1948 273

14 A Brand New Day, 1948-1969 298.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773539815

0773539816

OCLC:

786426534