Barnett Richling

Barnett Richling draws upon a wealth of sources to shed light on Jennesss tenure with the Anthropological Division of the National Museum of Canada. His field work took him beyond the Arctic to seven First Nations communities from Georgian By to British Columbias interior. Renowned as a pre-eminent afficher plus scholar of Inuit culture, Jenness also influenced linguistics, ethnology, material culture, and Northern archaeology. His story is also one of institutional conflict: Jenness worked as a public servant at a time when the federal government spearheaded anthropological research, although his commitment to the first peoples of his adopted homeland placed him at odds with Ottawas approach to aboriginal affairs. In Twilight and in Dawn is an exploration of one mans life in anthropology, and of the conditions-at the museum, on the reserves, in societys mainstream, and in the world at large-that shaped his work. afficher moins