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Inuit: Glimpses of an Arctic Past - Hardcover

Morrison, David A.; Germain, Georges-Herbert

 
9780660140384: Inuit: Glimpses of an Arctic Past

Synopsis

In eight chapters and with over 225 photographs and original illustrations, this book provides a fascinating and colourful view of the history and traditional culture of the Inuit.

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Synopsis

The foreword explains that the text is written in the past tense, because the "story is set in the year 1909-10"; the Copper Inuit of the Central Canadian Arctic have survived and adapted to the present day, but their culture as it is described here began to permanently change as of that year, when an influx of "visitors" brought them into the orbi

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