Marius Barbeau

Charles Marius Barbeau, CC FRSC , 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 Qubecois folk culture, and for his exhaustive cataloguing of the social organization, narrative and musical traditions, and plastic arts of the Tsimshianicspeaking peoples in British Columbia , and other Northwest Coast peoples. He developed unconventional theories about the peopling of the Americas.

Frdric Charles Joseph Marius Barbeau was born March 5, 1883, in SainteMarie, Quebec. In 1897, he began studies for the priesthood at the Collge commercial, Frres des coles chrtiennes. In 1903 he changed to study for a law degree at Universit 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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