Person
Marius Barbeau
Production · 1883–1969 · Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada
Biography
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 who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology. 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.
Known for
Marius Barbeau et l'art totémique
Self
Totems
Consulting Producer
People of the Potlatch
Consulting Producer
Nass River Indians
Filmography
- 1959Marius Barbeau et l'art totémiqueSelf
- 1944People of the PotlatchConsulting Producer
- 1944TotemsConsulting Producer
- —Nass River Indians
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