Kaj Birket-Smith
Kaj Birket-Smith (20 January 1893 - 28 October 1977) was a Danish philologist and anthropologist. He specialized in studying the habits and language of the Inuit and Eyak. Birket-Smith was a member of Knud Rasmussen's 1921 Thule expedition. In 1940, he became director of the Ethnographic Department of the National Museum of Denmark.[1]
Personal life
Birket-Smith was the son of Danish librarian and literary historian Sophus Birket-Smith and wife Ludovica F. Nielsen.
He received his Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1937. He was a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
In 1920, he married Minna (born 1894). Birket-Smith died in 1977.
Awards
- Geographical Society Hans Egede Medal
- Royal Anthropological Institute's Huxley medal
- Loubat Prize
Partial works
- (1916). The Greenland bow. København: Bianco Lunos bogtr.
- (1918). A geographic study of the early history of the Algonquian Indians
- (1920). Ancient artefacts from the Eastern United States
- (1924). Ethnography of the Egedesminde District with Aspects of the General Culture of West Greenland
- (1925). Preliminary report of the Fifth Thule Expedition Physical anthropology, linguistics, and material culture
- (1928). On the origin of Eskimo culture
- (1928). Five hundred Eskimo words: A comparative vocabulary from Greenland and Central Eskimo dialects
- (1928). The Greenlanders of the present day
- (1928). Physiography of West Greenland
- (1929). The Caribou Eskimos. Material and social life and their cultural position
- (1929). Drinking-tube and tobacco pipe in North America
- (1930). Contributions to Chipewyan ethnology
- (1933). Geographical notes on the Barren
- (1938). The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta, Alaska
- (1940). Anthropological observations of the Central Eskimos
- (1943). The origin of maize cultivation
References
- ^ Collins, Jr., Henry B. (Jan.- Mar., 1946). "Anthropology during the War. II. Scandinavia". American Anthropologist (Blackwell Publishing) New Series, Vol. 48 (1): 141–144. JSTOR 662818.
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Danish philologist |
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20 January 1893 |
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28 October 1977 |
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