1. Marius Barbeau developed unconventional theories about the peopling of the Americas.
33 Facts About Marius Barbeau
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Frederic Charles Joseph Marius Barbeau was born March 5,1883, in Sainte-Marie, Quebec.
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Marius Barbeau did his classical studies at College de Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere.
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In 1911, Barbeau joined the National Museum of Canada as an anthropologist under Edward Sapir.
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Marius Barbeau worked there for his entire career, retiring in 1949.
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In 1913, the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas, then affiliated with the American Folklore Society, convinced Marius Barbeau to specialize in French-Canadian folklore.
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Marius Barbeau collaborated with his interpreter, William Beynon, a Tsimshian hereditary chief.
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Marius Barbeau eventually trained Beynon in phonetic transcription, and the Tsimshian chief became an ethnological field worker in his own right.
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In 1929, Marius Barbeau removed the Ni'isjoohl totem pole, hand-carved in the 1860s, from a Nisga'a village.
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Marius Barbeau is a controversial figure as he was criticised for not accurately representing his Indigenous informants.
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In 1942, Marius Barbeau began lecturing at Laval and at the University of Ottawa.
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Marius Barbeau did brief fieldwork with the Tlingit, Haida, Tahltan, Kwakwaka'wakw, and other Northwest Coast groups.
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Marius Barbeau emphasized trying to synthesize the various migration traditions of these peoples, in order to correlate them with the distribution of culture traits.
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Marius Barbeau was trying to reconstruct a sequence for the peopling of the Americas.
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Marius Barbeau was an early champion of the theory of migration from Siberia across the Bering Strait.
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Marius Barbeau believed that their ancestors were refugees from Genghis Khan's conquests, some as recently as a few centuries ago.
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Marius Barbeau's thesis has been discredited by analysis of linguistic and DNA evidence.
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Under Beynon's influence, Marius Barbeau promoted the idea among western academics that the region's oral histories of migration have real historiographic value.
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Marius Barbeau was an early proponent of recognizing totem poles as world-class high art.
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Marius Barbeau was interested in music from a young age receiving musical education from his mother.
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Marius Barbeau would be named one of the first Canadian ethnomusicologists.
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Marius Barbeau was concerned with having all Canadians experience folk music.
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Marius Barbeau often used trained Canadian musicians as folk music performers to bring the music to a wider audience.
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Marius Barbeau received minor criticism for utilizing an American singer, Loraine Wyman.
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In 1915, Marius Barbeau would initiate the Museum collection of French-Canadian songs.
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Marius Barbeau's objective was to record every French Canadian folk song.
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Marius Barbeau returned with notation for over 500 songs and some folk legends.
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Marius Barbeau was a prolific writer, producing both scholarly articles and monographs, and books that presented Quebecois and First Nations oral traditions for a mass audience.
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Marius Barbeau's work is credited with contributing significantly to the rise of Quebecois nationalism in the late 20th century.
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Between 1916 and 1950, Marius Barbeau served as associate editor of the Journal of American Folklore.
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In 1922, Marius Barbeau became the founding secretary of the Canadian Historical Association.
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In 1950 Marius Barbeau won the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal.
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An authorized bronze portrait bust of Marius Barbeau was created by Russian-Canadian artist Eugenia Berlin; it is installed in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.