Marius Barbeau

Charles Marius Barbeau
Born(1883-03-05)March 5, 1883
Ste-Marie-de-Beauce (later Sainte-Marie, Quebec, Canada
DiedFebruary 27, 1969(1969-02-27) (aged 85)
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)ethnographer, folklorist
AwardsOrder 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[1] who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology.[2] 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.

  1. ^ Lynda Jessup; Andrew Nurse; Gordon Ernest Smith (2008). Around and about Marius Barbeau: Modelling Twentieth-century Culture. Canadian Museum of Civilization. pp. 207–208. ISBN 978-0-660-19775-3.
  2. ^ Renée Landry; Denise Ménard; R.J. Preston. "Marius Barbeau". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 22, 2019.