Tag Archives: Inuit culture

tattoo you: the girl from Oonalaska

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Dave

A kind of proximity to nature, the spirit world, the absence of boundaries where the human and the animal engaged one another in various guises of transference and inhabiting the physical body. Combinations of profound science fiction with ancient pagan … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Inuit culture, James ross inuit, Jared Diamond, Jean Jacques Rousseau, john webber engravings, Lawrence H. Keeley, Nicholas Wade, waldemar bogoras | Leave a comment

eskimo pie in the sky

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

Cheerful and adorable or primitive and lacking hygiene and “morals”. Such is the defined public persona of the Inuit or more derogatively, the Eskimo. Like pets. Cuddly. Except when they pee on the floor. Guilt at the extermination of tribal … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anthony Quinn, bagel advertising, cantor's bagel advertising, eskimo nell, Inuit Art, Inuit culture, Jared Diamond, max gillies actor, Nicholas Wade, richard franklin director, Robert Flaherty, Sam Huntington, serge lazaroff, the residents eskimo, the true story of eskimo nell | Leave a comment

snow job

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Dave

An urban hoax.That is that the Inuit and Northern people’s have 50-200 words to describe snow. As if there is an innate need to exoticize the other. Rather mundanely, and with some relief there is only “qanik” and “aput”; snow … Continue reading →