Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969

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Summary: 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. 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. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Born: 1883-03-05 [2][6]
Birth Place: Sainte-Marie (Québec, Insel) [2]; Sainte-Marie [6]
Died: 1969-02-27 [2][6]
Death Place: Ottawa [2][6]
Country: Canada [2]
Language: French [3]
Occupation: anthropologist [6]; writer [6]; ethnographer [6]; collector of fairy tales [6]; university teacher [6]; storyteller [6]; essayist [6]
Employer: Laval University [6]
Educated at: Oriel College [6]; Laval University [6]
Country of Education: Canada [6]; United Kingdom [6]
Yale LUX: Entity [6]
British Museum person-institution thesaurus: Entry [6]
Oxford Reference: Overview [6]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. National Library and Archives of Québec; 5. Danish Bibliographic Centre; 6. Wikidata

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