Charles Marius Barbeau
Charles Marius Barbeau
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| Born | 1883 | ||||||
| Died | 1969 | ||||||
| Residence | Oriel College | ||||||
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Charles Marius Barbeau, CC FRSC (March 5, 1883 – February 27, 1969), 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.[1] 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 (Tsimshian, Gitxsan, and Nisga'a), and other Northwest Coast peoples. He developed unconventional theories about the peopling of the Americas.
Barbeau is a controversial figure as he was criticised for not representing his indigenous informants. In his anthropological work among the Tsimshian and Huron-Wyandot, for instance, Barbeau was solely looking for “authentic” stories that were without political implications. Informants were often unwilling to work with him for various reasons. It is possible that the "educated informants,” who Barbeau told his students not to work with, did not trust him to disseminate their stories.[2]
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(1915) Huron and Wyandot Mythology. Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada. (1923) Indian Days in the Canadian Rockies. Illustrated by W. Langdon Kihn. Toronto: Macmillan. (with Edward Sapir) (1925) Folksongs of French Canada. New Haven: Yale University Press. (1928) The Downfall of Temlaham. Toronto: Macmillan. (1929) Totem Poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada. (1933) "How Asia Used to Drip at the Spout into America," Washington Historical Quarterly, vol. 24, pp. 163–173. (1934) Au Coeur de Québec. Montréal: Zodiaque. (1934) Cornelius Krieghoff: Pioneer Painter of North America. Toronto: Macmillan. (1934) La merveilleuse aventure de Jacques Cartier. Montréal: A. Levesque. (1935) Grand'mère raconte. Montréal: Beauchemin. (1935) Il était une fois. Montréal: Beauchemin. (1936) The Kingdom Saguenay. Toronto: Macmillan. (1936) Québec, ou survit l'ancienne France (Quebec: Where Ancient France Lingers.) Québec City: Garneau. (with Marguerite and Raoul d'Harcourt) (1937) Romanceros du Canada. Montréal: Beauchemin. (1942) Maîtres artisans de chez-nous. Montréal: Zodiaque. (1942) Les Rèves des chasseurs. Montréal: Beauchemin. (with Grace Melvin) (1943) The Indian Speaks. Toronto: Macmillan. (with Rina Lasnier) (1944) Madones canadiennes. Montréal: Beauchemin. (1944) Mountain Cloud. Toronto: Macmillan. (1944–1946) Saintes artisanes. 2 vols. Montréal: Fides. (1945) "The Aleutian Route of Migration into America." Geographical Review, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 424–443. (1945) "Bear Mother." Journal of American Folklore, vol. 59, no. 231, pp. 1–12. (1945) Ceinture flechée. Montréal: Paysana. (1946) Alouette! Montréal: Lumen. (1947) Alaska Beckons. Toronto: Macmillan. (1947) L'Arbre des rèves (The Tree of Dreams). Montréal: Thérrien. (1950; reissued 1990) Totem Poles. 2 vols. (Anthropology Series 30, National Museum of Canada Bulletin 119.) Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. Reprinted, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, 1990. (1952) "The Old-World Dragon in America." In Indian Tribes of Aboriginal America: Selected Papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists, ed. by Sol Tax, pp. 115–122. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (1953) Haida Myths. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. (1954) "'Totemic Atmosphere' on the North Pacific Coast." Journal of American Folklore, vol. 67, pp. 103-122. (1957) Haida Carvers in Argillite. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. (1957) J'ai vu Québec. Québec City: Garneau. (1957) My Life in Recording: Canadian-Indian Folklore. Folkways Records (ed.) (1958) The Golden Phoenix and Other Fairy Tales from Quebec. Retold by Michael Hornyansky. Toronto: Oxford University Press. (1958) Medicine-Men on the North Pacific Coast. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. (1958) Pathfinders in the North Pacific. Toronto: Ryerson. (et al.) (1958) Roundelays: Dansons à la Ronde. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. (1960) Indian Days on the Western Prairies. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. (1960) "Huron-Wyandot Traditional Narratives: In Translations and Native Texts." National Museum of Canada Bulletin 165, Anthropological Series 47. (1961) Tsimsyan Myths. (Anthropological Series 51, National Museum of Canada Bulletin 174.) Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources. (1962) Jongleur Songs of Old Quebec. Rutgers University Press. (1965–1966) Indiens d'Amérique. 3 vols. Montréal: Beauchemin. (1968) Louis Jobin, statuaire. Montréal: Beauchemin.