Tag Archives: Nanook of The North

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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged anthony c. woodbury, benjamin lee whorf, Eskimo stereotypes, franz boas, franz boaz, geoffrey k. pullum, Inuit culture, john steckley, melanie fafard, Nanook of The North, Robert Flaherty, sapir-wharf hypothesis, steven a. jacobson, the residents eskimo | Leave a comment

D.I.Y Filmmaker Broke The Ice

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Dave

Nanook Of The North by Robert Flaherty was the first feature length documentary film. Nanook ran 79 minutes and was released in 1922. It purported to be a historical record of Inuit from the Frobisher Bay area of larger Hudson … Continue reading →