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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Abstract 8 Résumé 9 Contents 10 List of Figures and Maps 13 Foreword 16 Preface 18 Acknowledgements 26 Abbreviations 27 1. 1908: The Launching of an Innocent 28 2. 1912: The Ascent of Mount Madawana, Papua-New Guinea 52 3. 1913-16: The Canadian Arctic Expedition 64 4. 1915-24: The Trials of a Polygamist 86 5. 1916-22: The First World War and its Aftermath 94 6. 1923-24: On a British Columbia Frontier 106 7. 1924: Trekking the Yukon Telegraph Line 118 8. 1925-26: A Friendship Lost 126 9. 1926: Searching for Early Americans 150 10. 1926-39: Administrative Tedium 168 11. 1934: Anthropology Rescues an Immigrant 176 12. 1936: An Indian Medicine Man 180 13. 1926-39: Field Work, Books, Consulting, and Conferences 190 14. 1938: Europe in the Shadow of Impending War 202 15. 1939-48: The Second World War and Early Retirement 220 16. 1948-65: Post-retirement Wanderings 230 17. 1949-50: Wandering through Italy 240 18. 1955-56: A Winter in Troubled Cyprus 280 19. 1959-60: A French Pilgrimage and Early Church Architecture 316 20. 1961-62: Adrift in Spain 328 21. 1964: In Greenland 338 22. Recollections of "A Splendid Little Chap" 340 Table 1: Native pe
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- Author
- Jenness, Diamond;Jenness, Stuart Edward
- Publisher
- Ottawa University Press;Canadian Museum of Civilization
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781772824179
- Category
- nonfiction
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