Marius Barbeau

Canadian ethnographer

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.

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Marius Barbeau was born on Monday, 5 March 1883 in Ste-Marie-de-Beauce (later Sainte-Marie), Quebec. They were best known as a folklorist. Barbeau's country of citizenship (nationality) was Canadian. They died on Thursday, 27 February 1969 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the age of 85. Their zodiac star sign were Pisces.

You can find people similar to Marius Barbeau by visiting our lists Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) and People from Sainte-Marie, Quebec.

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Date of birth	5 March 1883	edit
Place of birth	Ste-Marie-de-Beauce (later Sainte-Marie), Quebec	edit
Date of death	27 February 1969	edit
Age	85 (age at death)
Place of death	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	edit
Occupation	ethnographer, folklorist	edit
Occupation category	Folklorist	edit
Nationality	Canadian	edit

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