ESKIMOS term papers and essays pg.2

A review of Knud Rasmussen's 1932 book "Intellectual Culture of the Copper Eskimos".

Discusses the effects of contact between the Inuit Eskimo tribes and Westerners from the early nineteenth century.

Compares two non-literate cultures of Australia & sub-Arctic. Locales, kinship, social structure, marriage and child-rearing.

A discussion of the reasons for the lower social status of women including family hierarchy, child-rearing, bride capture and wife-trading.

A look at the life story of Peter Pitseolak, a native Eskimo.