Marius Barbeau
| Charles Marius Barbeau | |
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| Born |
March 5, 1883 Ste-Marie-de-Beauce (later Sainte-Marie), Quebec, Canada |
| Died | February 27, 1969 (aged 85) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | ethnographer, folklorist |
| Awards | Order of Canada |
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. 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.
Frédéric Charles Joseph Marius Barbeau was born March 5, 1883, in Sainte-Marie, Quebec. In 1897, he began studies for the priesthood at the Collège commercial, Frères des Écoles chrétiennes. In 1903 he changed to study for a law degree at Université Laval, which he received in 1907. He went to England on a Rhodes Scholarship,studying at Oriel College, Oxford from 1907 to 1910, where he switched to a career in the new field of anthropology. He studied under R. R. Marett.
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