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Describes emotional patterning of the Utkuhikhalingmiut, a small group of Eskimos who live at the mouth of the Back River, in the context of their life as seen as lived by the author. Based on field work conducted between June 1963 and March 1965.
Anthropologist Jean Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore with an Eskimo family. Through vignettes of daily life she unfolds a warm and preceptive tale of the behavioral patterns of the Utku, their way of training children, and their handling of deviation…
Describes emotional patterning of the Utkuhikhalingmiut, a small group of Eskimos who live at the mouth of the Back River, in the context of their life as seen as lived by the author. Based on field work conducted between June 1963 and March 1965.