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Sep 4, 2007 · Bruce Graham Trigger. Bruce Graham Trigger, anthropologist, archaeologist (born 18 June 1937 in Preston, ON; died 1 December 2006 in Montréal, QC).Bruce Trigger worked for most of his career as a professor in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montréal, and made significant contributions to the fields of Egyptology, the archaeology and ethnohistory of eastern Canada, and ...
Trigger, Bruce G. 1937-2006 (Bruce Graham Trigger) OBITUARY NOTICE— See index for CA sketch: Born June 18, 1937, in Preston (now Cambridge), Ontario, Canada; died of cancer, December 1, 2006. Anthropologist, educator, and author. Trigger was a leading archeologist in Canada who was best known for his work on Canadian prehistory and in Egyptology.
Bruce Graham Trigger (1937-2006) Bruce Trigger excelled in multiple fields of research and analysis of many cultures. In terms of culture, his foci from the outset centred on Nubian Egyptian on the one hand, and Canadian Amerindian on the other. His first academic publication investigated ‘The destruction of Huronia,’ (Transactions of the ...
Oct 26, 2020 · Archaeologist, historian, theorist, activist-critic, Bruce Graham Trigger was born on June 18, 1937, in Preston, Ontario, and died on December 1, 2006, in Montreal, Quebec. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto (B.A. in anthropology, 1959) and took his doctorate at Yale University (Ph.D. in anthropology, 1964) studying under George Murdock and Irving Rouse.
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On this point, Science contributor Jacob W. Gruber observed: "Trigger quite properly and usefully emphasizes the role of romantically inspired nationalisms in supporting the use of the archeological enterprise for national and ethnically chauvinistic purposes. This is an interesting and important movement that has led to fraud, distortion, and exaggeration of the archeological record.
The Image of Bruce Trigger. Bruce Graham Trigger (1937–2006) came from a family in which the traditions of English deism or atheism, in the spirit of Frazer, were mixed with those of the ...
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Bruce G. Trigger in Stratford, Ontario, circa 1980s–1990s. (Courtesy of Barbara and Rosalyn Trigger) Bruce Graham Trigger (1937–2006) MICHAEL S. BISSON McGill University Bruce Graham Trigger, a prolific archaeologist and historian of the discipline who was the James McGill Professor of anthropology at McGill University, died on December 1, 2006, in Montreal.
