Age, Biography and Wiki

Jean Briggs was born on 28 May, 1929 in Washington, D.C., United States, is an American-born Canadian anthropologist. Discover Jean Briggs's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

Popular As N/A
Occupation Anthropologist · ethnographer · linguist · professor
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 28 May, 1929
Birthday 28 May
Birthplace Washington, D.C., United States
Date of death 27 July, 2016
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 28 May. She is a member of famous professor with the age 87 years old group.

Jean Briggs Height, Weight & Measurements

At 87 years old, Jean Briggs height not available right now. We will update Jean Briggs's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.

Physical Status
Height Not Available
Weight Not Available
Body Measurements Not Available
Eye Color Not Available
Hair Color Not Available

Dating & Relationship status

She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.

Family
Parents Not Available
Husband Not Available
Sibling Not Available
Children Not Available

Jean Briggs Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jean Briggs worth at the age of 87 years old? Jean Briggs’s income source is mostly from being a successful professor. She is from United States. We have estimated Jean Briggs's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
House Not Available
Cars Not Available
Source of Income professor

Jean Briggs Social Network

Instagram
Linkedin
Twitter
Facebook
Wikipedia
Imdb

Timeline

1929

Jean L. Briggs (May 28, 1929 – July 27, 2016) was an American-born anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and professor emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Briggs was born in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 1929, the eldest of four children of Margaret (née Worcester) and Horace W. Briggs, member of the clergy of The New Church, also known as Swedenborgianism.

She was raised in the state of Maine and Newton, Massachusetts.

1951

Jean Briggs received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1951.

1960

She then completed a master's degree from Boston University in 1960 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967.

1963

By her own account, Briggs knew very few Inuit words when she arrived to conduct her research, "When I arrived in Chantrey Inlet in 1963, I knew only six words of Inuktitut: 'yes,' 'no,' ‘I don’t know,’ ‘have some tea,’ 'have some more tea' and 'thank you'."

1967

In 1967, Briggs moved to the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and joined the Department of Anthropology at Memorial University in St. John's, where she taught for 47 years.

She was a student of Cora Du Bois, an American cultural and psychiatric anthropologist.

1970

Her best known works included the 1970 landmark book Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family, based on 18 months of research and field work in Inuit communities on the Arctic coast during the 1960s.

In 1970, she published her best-known book, Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family, based on research conducted while living with an Inuit family along the Chantrey Inlet for 18-months during the 1960s.

She documents the culture, language and practices of the family and the surrounding community in the book, which remains a landmark publication in the fields of ethnography and anthropology.

Briggs had begun compiling Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuktitut words in 1970, ultimately gathering and preserving 34,000 words in the dictionary.

1988

In 1988, Briggs published a second book, Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old.

Her book won two awards, the Boyer Prize from the Society for Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the Victor Turner Prize from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.

2015

Jean Briggs compiled a landmark, bilingual Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuktitut dictionary, which was published in 2015.

Prior to its 2015 publication, no dictionary had ever documented the Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuktitut dialect.

Several researches and colleagues from Memorial University and the University of Toronto joined her to create the dictionary, utilizing five grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Most of her fieldwork and research focused on the Canadian Inuit, but she also visited communities of Alaskan Inupiat and Siberian Yupik people.

2016

Jean Briggs died from congestive heart failure on July 27, 2016, at the age of 87.

Briggs won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology, as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Bergen in Norway.

She was also a Royal Society of Canada fellow.