Edmund (Snow) Carpenter

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Edmund Carpenter (b. 1922) has taught anthropology for 40 years at the Universities of Toronto, California and Harvard. He began his fieldwork as a boy in 1935 and has since worked in New Guinea, Borneo and Tibet as well as all of the world's Arctic regions. He has made fifteen field trips to the Arctic in Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Siberia. In 1951 he spent the winter in an Eskimo sod hut. His published works include: Patterns That Connect and a twelve-volume work called Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art, both about the work of Carl Schuster; Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me; and They Became What They Beheld. He is currently working on a book on Eskimo maps which will include 400 original drawings, all made before 1900 and some as early as the 18th century.