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Anthropologist Jean Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Eskimo family. Through vignettes of daily life she unfolds a warm and perceptive tale of the behavioral patterns of the Utku, their way of training children, and their handling of deviations from desired behavior.
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Absorbingly and affectingly written. A remarkable book...one that bids to become an anthropological classic.
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Portrait of an eskimo family. Anthropologist Jean Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the 'adopted daughter' of an Eskimo family. Through vignettes of daily life she unfold a warm and perceptive tale of the behavioral patterns of the Utku, their way of training children, and their handling of deviations from desired behavior.
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- PublisherHarvard Univ Pr
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0674608259
- ISBN 13 9780674608252
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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