White Lies About the Inuit

Contents
ONE: IMAGINING THE INUIT
	Arctic Urban Legends
	Learning about the Eskimo
	See You in the Movies
	“In This Movie, You Will Be an Eskimo”
	White Lies Not Included
	The Word Eskimo and Its Meanings
	Does Eating Raw Mean Eating People Raw?
	Who Are You Calling Inuit, White Man?
	Part of a Larger Picture
TWO: FOUR MAJOR WHITE FIGURES
	Franz Boas: A Paternalistic Father of Anthropology
	Stefansson and Jenness: Two Polar Opposites
	Farley Mowat: Subjective Non-fiction, Essential Truths, or Fxxx the Facts?
	Conclusion
THREE: FIFTY-TWO WORDS FOR SNOW
	A Source of Humour: Jokes about Inuit Snow Terms
	It All Began with Boas
	Enter Diamond Jenness
	Benjamin Whorf
	Downplaying the Number of Inuit Snow Terms: An Ignored Source
	The Birth of 20 Snow Terms: A Sociological Tradition Since 1968
	Numbers Ending with Two: 52, 42, 32, 22
	Farley Mowat Takes the Number to an Artistic High: 100
	How Do Inuktitut and English Differ in Terms for Snow?
	English Is Good in the Snow, Too
	So How Many “Words” Are There for Snow?
	Seven Primary Terms for Snow
	Negative Implications of the Inuit Snow Term Cliché
	Summary
FOUR: THE MYTH OF THE BLOND ESKIMO
	The Blond Eskimo: A Popular Figure
	The Copper Inuit
	First Contact
	Lost Races
	Stefansson Discovers the Blond Eskimo and Finds Funding
	The Greenland Norse and Their Fate
	The Blond Eskimo Captures the Literary Imagination
	Jenness Takes Up the Challenge
	The Return of the Blond Eskimo
	Negative Implications of the Blond Eskimo
FIVE: ELDERS ON ICE
	A Popular Story: Going with the Floes
	Why Shouldn’t You Believe the Story of Culturally Determined Inuit Elder Suicide?
	When Is Abandonment Really Abandonment?
	The Deep Roots of This Myth: Beginnings as Euthanasia
	Growing the Myth
	Altruistic Suicide, Mores, and Cultural Relativism
	Anthropologists Introduce Environmental Causality
	Balikci Uses Psychology to Blame the Victim
	Guemple Uses Anthropology to Blame the Victim
	Colonial Contact: A Neglected Causality
	Farley Mowat Popularizes Inuit Elder Abandonment and Suicide
	Inuit Suicide Today
SIX: THE LIES DO NOT STAND ALONE
	Inuit Snow Terms, Hanunoo Rice Terms, and Nuer Cow Colour Combinations
	The Blond Eskimo: Atlanteans, Welsh Princes, and the Irish
	Sati
	The Inuit as a Canadian Construct
	Best in the Bush
	Conclusion
Works Cited
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