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Author Richling, Barnett

Title In twilight and in dawn : a biography of Diamond Jenness / Barnett Richling
Published Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012 (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012)

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 413 pages) : illustrations, digital file
Series McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 67
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 67.
Contents Antipodean Arcadia, 1886-1908 -- The Second Horse, 1908-1911 -- On a Bwaidokan Veranda, 1911-1912 -- Chance and Necessity, 1913-1914 -- Kiss of the White Man, 1914-1916 -- In the Trenches, 1916-1919 -- An Unloved Stepchild, 1919-1931 -- Peoples of Memory, 1921 -- Jostling Tribes, 1923-1924 -- Ancestors and Cradles, 1926 -- A Sisyphean Puzzle, 1927-1935 -- Turning the Page, 1929-1936 -- Behind High Walls, 1936-1948 -- A Brand New Day, 1948-1969 -- Epilogue The Afterlife of Diamond Jenness
Summary From New Guinea to the Arctic and beyond - the life and times of one of Canada's foremost anthropologists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-404) and index
Notes English
Subject Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969.
SUBJECT Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 fast
Jenness, Diamond 1886-1969 gnd
Subject National Museum of Canada -- Officials and employees -- Biography
SUBJECT National Museum of Canada fast
Subject Anthropologists -- Canada -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Anthropologists
Employees
Ethnologie
Eskimobild
Canada
Kanada
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. cn2012902117
ISBN 9780773587045
0773587047
0773539816
9780773539815
0773587055
9780773587052
1283834839
9781283834834