, també conegut com a Charles Marius Barbeau, o simplement C. Marius Barbeau, va ser un etnògraf del Quebec. També va estudiar el folklore Québécois i la cultura dels amerindis Tsimshian, Gitxsan i Nisga'a entre d'altres.
La muntanya més alta de la Serralada Àrtica, el mont Barbeau, va rebre aquest nom en honor seu.
Biografia Frédéric Charles Joseph Marius Barbeau nasqué a Sainte-Marie (Quebec). L'any 1897 inicia estudis pel sacerdoci al Collège commercial, Frères des Écoles chrétiennes. L'any 1903 va canviar per estudiar Dret a la Universitat Laval i es va llicenciar el 1907. Es traslladà a Londres com un Rhodes Scholarship, estudiant a Oriel College, Oxford antropologia tenint com a mestre a R. R. Marett.
El 1911, Barbeau treballà pel National Museum of Canada com antropòleg sota Edward Sapir.
L'any 1913, l'antropòleg Franz Boas, va convéncer Barbeau per tal que s'especialitzès en el folklore franco-canadenc.
L'any 1922, Barbeau va esdevenir secretari fundador de la Canadian Historical Association. L'any 1929 va passar a ser membre fundador de la Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Morí el 1969 a Ottawa
miniatura|Placa sobre Marius Barbeau a Gatineau.
La medalla Marius Barbeau Medal es va establir l'any 1985 per part de la Folklore Studies Association of Canada per a recoméixer les contribucions importants en el folklore i l'etnologia del Canadà.Folklore Studies Association of Canada, Marius Barbeau Medal
Algunes obres (1915) Huron and Wyandot Mythology. Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada. (1923) Indian Days in the Canadian Rockies. Illustrated by W. Langdon Kihn. Toronto: Macmillan. (with Edward Sapir) (1925) Folksongs of French Canada. New Haven: Yale University Press. (1928) The Downfall of Temlaham. Toronto: Macmillan. (1929) Totem Poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada. (1933) "How Asia Used to Drip at the Spout into America," Washington Historical Quarterly, vol. 24, p. 163–173. (1934) Au Coeur de Québec. Montréal: Zodiaque. (1934) Cornelius Krieghoff: Pioneer Painter of North America. Toronto: Macmillan. (1934) La merveilleuse aventure de Jacques Cartier. Montréal: A. Levesque. (1935) Grand'mère raconte. Montréal: Beauchemin. (1935) Il était une fois. Montréal: Beauchemin. (1936) The Kingdom Saguenay. Toronto: Macmillan. (1936) Québec, ou survit l'ancienne France (Quebec: Where Ancient France Lingers.) Québec City: Garneau. (with Marguerite and Raoul d'Harcourt) (1937) Romanceros du Canada. Montréal: Beauchemin. (1942) Maîtres artisans de chez-nous. Montréal: Zodiaque. (1942) Les Rèves des chasseurs. Montréal: Beauchemin. (with Grace Melvin) (1943) The Indian Speaks. Toronto: Macmillan. (with Rina Lasnier) (1944) Madones canadiennes. Montréal: Beauchemin. (1944) Mountain Cloud. Toronto: Macmillan. (1944–1946) Saintes artisanes. 2 vols. Montréal: Fides. (1945) "The Aleutian Route of Migration into America." Geographical Review, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 424–443. (1945) "Bear Mother." Journal of American Folklore, vol. 59, no. 231, p. 1–12. (1945) Ceinture flechée. Montréal: Paysana. (1946) Alouette! Montréal: Lumen. (1947) Alaska Beckons. Toronto: Macmillan. (1947) L'Arbre des rèves (The Tree of Dreams). Montréal: Thérrien. (1950; reissued 1990) Totem Poles. 2 vols. (Anthropology Series 30, National Museum of Canada Bulletin 119.) Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. Reprinted, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, 1990. (1952) "The Old-World Dragon in America." In Indian Tribes of Aboriginal America: Selected Papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists, ed. by Sol Tax, p. 115–122. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (1953) Haida Myths. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. (1954) "'Totemic Atmosphere' on the North Pacific Coast." Journal of American Folklore, vol. 67, p. 103-122. (1957) Haida Carvers in Argillite. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. (1957) J'ai vu Québec. Québec City: Garneau. (1957) My Life in Recording: Canadian-Indian Folklore. Folkways Records (ed.) (1958) The Golden Phoenix and Other Fairy Tales from Quebec. Retold by Michael Hornyansky. Toronto: Oxford University Press. (1958) Medicine-Men on the North Pacific Coast. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. (1958) Pathfinders in the North Pacific. Toronto: Ryerson. (et al.) (1958) Roundelays: Dansons à la Ronde. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. (1960) Indian Days on the Western Prairies. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. (1960) "Huron-Wyandot Traditional Narratives: In Translations and Native Texts." National Museum of Canada Bulletin 165, Anthropological Series 47. (1961) Tsimsyan Myths. (Anthropological Series 51, National Museum of Canada Bulletin 174.) Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources. (1962) Jongleur Songs of Old Quebec. Rutgers University Press. (1965–1966) Indiens d'Amérique. 3 vols. Montréal: Beauchemin. (1968) Louis Jobin, statuaire. Montréal: Beauchemin.
Bibliografia Cove, John J. (1985) A Detailed Inventory of the Barbeau Northwest Coast Files. (National Museum of Man Mercury Series, Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Paper 54.) Ottawa: National Museums of Canada. Duff, Wilson (1964) "Contributions of Marius Barbeau to West Coast Ethnology," Anthropologica (new series), vol. 6, no. 1, p. 63-96. MacDonald, George F., and John J. Cove (eds.) (1987) Tsimshian Narratives. Collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon. (Canadian Museum of Civilization Mercury Series, Directorate Paper 3.) 2 vols. Ottawa: Directorate, Canadian Museum of Civilization. Nowry, Laurence (1995) Marius Barbeau, Man of Mana: A Biography. Toronto: NC Press. Orford, Emily (1986) “Anthropologist’s field work on west coast began in 1914,” In Western People, 23 January 23, 1986. Orford, Emily (1984) “Charles Marius Barbeau: Photo-ethnologist of coast Indians.” In Victoria Times-Colonist: The Islander, May 13, 1984. 10-11. Slaney, Frances M. (2000) "Working for a Canadian Sense of Place(s): The Role of Landscape Painters in Marius Barbeau's Ethnology," In Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology'', ed. by Richard Handler, p. 81–122. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
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Marius Barbeau : A Canadian Hero and His Era - The Canadian Museum of Civilization Marius Barbeau at The Canadian Encyclopedia AVTrust.ca - Marius Barbeau (contains video recording) Barbeau Autoiography Album Details at Smithsonian Folkways “But Now Things Have Changed”: Marius Barbeau and the Politics of Amerindian Identity Andrew Nurse, Mount Allison University
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