Eskimo Science Richard Nelson Summary

• The article “Eskimo Science” is by Richard Nelson is about how Richard wanted to prove his point that unilineal evolution wasn’t the ideal way of viewing this witch people that are labeled as savages he states that they think in sophisticated ways that are complex even though they might not be the same thoughts they do think with a level of sophistication. He does this by describing the ways the Eskimos hunt their pray and how they gain information from many years information that has been passed down and they add to these hunting trips with their own observations. Then Richard goes on to talk about how the Eskimos can tell when the weather is going to be bad by tells of the animals. The story about the seventy year old man who seen knew