Jean L Briggs was an American-born anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and professor emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
13 Facts About Jean Briggs
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Jean Briggs's best known works included the 1970 landmark book Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family, based on 18 months of research and field work in Inuit communities on the Arctic coast during the 1960s.
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Jean Briggs was raised in the state of Maine and Newton, Massachusetts.
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Jean Briggs received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1951.
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Jean Briggs then completed a master's degree from Boston University in 1960 and her Ph.
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In 1967, Briggs moved to the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and joined the Department of Anthropology at Memorial University in St John's, where she taught for 47 years.
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Jean Briggs was a student of Cora Du Bois, an American cultural and psychiatric anthropologist.
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In 1988, Jean Briggs published a second book, Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old.
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Jean Briggs's book won two awards, the Boyer Prize from the Society for Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the Victor Turner Prize from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.
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Jean Briggs compiled a landmark, bilingual Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuktitut dictionary, which was published in 2015.
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Jean Briggs had begun compiling Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuktitut words in 1970, ultimately gathering and preserving 34,000 words in the dictionary.
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Jean Briggs died from congestive heart failure on July 27,2016, at the age of 87.
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Jean Briggs won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology, as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Bergen in Norway.