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Through darkening spectacles
About this book
Diamond Jenness was one of the most outstanding Canadian anthropologists of the early twentieth century. His books, The Indians of Canada and People of the Twilight, are classics. Now, details about the private life of this dedicated scholar are revealed in his own words augmented with contributions by his son Stuart.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- Abstract
- Résumé
- List of Figures and Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: 1908: The Launching of an Innocent
- Chapter 2: 1912: The Ascent of Mount Madawana, Papua-New Guinea
- Chapter 3: 1913-16: The Canadian Arctic Expedition
- Chapter 4: 1915-24: The Trials of a Polygamist
- Chapter 5: 1916-22: The First World War and its Aftermath
- Chapter 6: 1923-24: On a British Columbia Frontier
- Chapter 7: 1924: Trekking the Yukon Telegraph Line
- Chapter 8: 1925-26: A Friendship Lost
- Chapter 9: 1926: Searching for Early Americans
- Chapter 10: 1926-39: Administrative Tedium
- Chapter 11: 1934: Anthropology Rescues an Immigrant
- Chapter 12: 1936: An Indian Medicine Man
- Chapter 13: 1926-39: Field Work, Books, Consulting, and Conferences
- Chapter 14: 1938: Europe in the Shadow of Impending War
- Chapter 15: 1939-48: The Second World War and Early Retirement
- Chapter 16: 1948-65: Post-retirement Wanderings
- Chapter 17: 1949-50: Wandering through Italy
- Chapter 18: 1955-56: A Winter in Troubled Cyprus
- Chapter 19: 1959-60: A French Pilgrimage and Early Church Architecture
- Chapter 20: 1961-62: Adrift in Spain
- Chapter 21: 1964: In Greenland
- Chapter 22: Recollections of "A Splendid Little Chap"
- Table 1: Native peoples investigated in the field by D. Jenness 1911—1936
- Table 2: Diamond Jenness' travels 1947-1969
- Appendix 1 : List of Donors for Portrait of Diamond Jenness
- Appendix 2: The Publications of Diamond Jenness
- Appendix 3: Publications about Diamond Jenness
- References
- Index