Inuit adults often present small children with difficult choices and then dramatise the consequences of the child's answers, enacting the plots that drive Inuit social life. This narrative looks at six months in the life of a three-year-old Inuit girl.
Jean L. Briggs takes us through six months of dramatic interactions in the life of Chubby Maata, a three-year-old girl growing up in a Baffin Island hunting camp. The book examines the issues that engaged the child - belonging, possession, love - and shows the process of her gro…
Jean L. Briggs takes us through six months of dramatic interactions in the life of Chubby Maata, a three-year-old girl growing up in a Baffin Island hunting camp. The book examines the issues that engaged the child - belonging, possession, love - and shows the process of her gro…
Told from an ordinary man's perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas--the father of modern anthropology--on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to 1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic history provides a plain, dire…
Told from an ordinary man's perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas#x97;the father of modern anthropology#x97;on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to 1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic history provides a plain…
Told from an ordinary man's perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas-the father of modern anthropology-on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to 1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic history provides a plain, direct…
Graham Rowley's memoir of his experiences as an archaeologist in the North before World War II. This edition includes the planned sequel covering his post-war experiences in the Arctic.
