Marius Barbeau's Vitalist Ethnology / Frances M. Slaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slaney, Frances M., author.

Series:

Mercury Series

Mercury series. History paper ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969.

Barbeau, Marius.

Ethnologists--Canada--Biography.

Ethnologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (600 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Gatineau, QC : Canadian Museum of History and the University of Ottawa Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Following extensive research in Canada, England and France, author Frances Slaney sheds light on the career of Marius Barbeau, delivering the first in-depth assessment of his ethnographic fieldwork and publications as a reflection of his studies abroad (Oxford and Paris, 1907-1911)."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright

Land Acknowledgement | Reconnaissance territoriale

Abstract

Résumé

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

A Note on Language | Une note sur le langage

Foreword

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Section I: Animism to Vitalism: Learning Anthropology at Oxford and Paris

Evolutionism: An Escape from Quebec’s Catholicism

Chapter 1: Animism at Oxford, 1907–1910

Tylor’s Animism: A Theory of Interconnecting Life Forms

Tylor’s “Intellectualism”

Classical Greece before Ethnographic Diversity at Oxford

Anthropology, the Classics, and Tylor’s Eclipse

Barbeau’s Struggle to Grasp Anthropology

Oxford’s Anthropological Society

Chapter 2: Social Anthropology in Paris

En Route

Studying Religion with Marcel Mauss

Barbeau’s Thesis

Securing a Job in Canada

Tylor’s Animism versus James’s “Pluriverse”

Souls and Solidarity

Chapter 3: Technology: Museum Studies in France and England Generated by AI.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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OCLC:

1330715695