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Marius Barbeau

Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (1883-1969) · Canada · On the map · Academics · Died at 85

Charles Marius Barbeau,, also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology.

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1969Died27 February 19691956Guggenheim FellowshipAward1954Guggenheim FellowshipAward1946Léo-Pariseau PrizeAward1907Rhodes ScholarshipAward1883Born5 March 1883

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Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship1956
Guggenheim Fellowship1954
Léo-Pariseau Prize1946
Rhodes Scholarship1907
Companion of the Order of Canada
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Honorary Doctorate at the Laval University
Person of National Historic Significance

About this person

A Rhodes Scholar, he is best known for an early championing of Québecois folk culture, and for his exhaustive cataloguing of the social organization, narrative and musical traditions, and plastic arts of the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples in British Columbia, and other Northwest Coast peoples. He developed unconventional theories about the peopling of the Americas.

Country
Canada
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1883 to 1969 · aged 85

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