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    The first people of Canada (The Inuit/Subarctic People And the Eastern woodland farmers have many similarities And differences like they use the same gear‚ but they also believe in different things. All these tribes have differences and similarities‚ but right now we’re going to be covering the similarities. Like they are mostly passive‚ but they still fought they also briefly fought each other for land and other needs. This shows that yes‚ they are passive‚ but they still do fight for needs They

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    Ritual Gifts: Inuit Culture and Aztec Culture The two cultures that will be discussed in this paper have many similarities as well as gift exchanges and rituals that are important to the people. Inuit Culture takes part in animal sacrifice‚ for feeding the people. Placing fresh water into the mouth of the dead seal before it is cut up to eat; in doing this the hopes of the people are that the seal will come back for more water and feed the humans again. As for the Aztec Culture they perform human

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    justifiable. I also believe that cultural relativism plays a role in this‚ and that some societies view sacrificing others as morally right and that culture needs to be taken into consideration. An example of this is the killing of female babies in the Inuit culture. Female babies were killed due to a high death rate among men‚ who were hunters‚ which led to a surplus of females. This shortage of men‚ meant a shortage of food‚ in order to keep the majority of the culture alive‚ men were of priority because

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    Linda Alchin’s article Inuit tribe‚ explains the culture‚ geography‚ and resources of the Inuit tribe and also the Inuit tribe’s traditions and history. Infoplease‚ on the other hand‚ has all information needed for both the Inuit and the Bedouins. Both tribes had a very big difference in their location‚ which caused different weathers. Both the Inuit tribe and the Bedouin tribe had a quite different geography‚ which caused different weathers. According to Inuit tribe‚ the Inuit tribe lived in a very

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    Steckley‚ J. (2008). White Lies about the Inuit (p. 168). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. In White Lies about the Inuit‚ John Steckley attempts to dismantle many popular “lies” about the Inuit by examining their sources in both academia and in pop culture (Steckley‚ 2008). Why is he qualified to write this book? Steckley‚ who holds a PhD in education from the University of Toronto‚ is also the last known speaker of the Huron language (Goddard‚ 2010). He is clearly an eminent scholar who has

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    The Adaptation of the Inuit (Eskimo) People: Cultural and Biological The Inuit people are also known as Eskimos. They have lived in the Artic area; the Tundra‚ where the climate is cold and too severe for trees to grow‚ for over a thousand years. Over the thousands of years living in the Artic environment‚ the Inuit people have adapted culturally and biologically. Among the biological adaptations‚ their bodies altered permitting them to adapt to the environment in five ways. In addition to biological

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    preparation for the afterlife. Whether it is the Bagisu leaving corpses for wild animals to eat (Beierle 2003)‚ the death taboos of Copper Inuits‚ or Italian Americans carrying a body out of a dwelling feet first so that it cannot see the door and return (Cowell 1986)‚ all cultures must develop methods to deal with the inevitable end of life. The Copper Inuit live in the Canadian Arctic‚ a harsh climate. According to David Damas (1996:1)‚ “Gulfs and straits are ice free for only about 3 months of

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    HOMEWORK 1: Beholding Eye & Arctic Inuit Irah Boncaros Geog 2: Online Cultural Geography January 22‚ 2017 Ancestral Diet Gone Wrong 1. After reading Marla Cone’s article‚ Ancestral Diet Gone Wrong‚ I knew other countries that have been affected by their environmental surroundings such as Asia or Africa‚ but I did not know that people from the Arctic were affected by their physical and environmental surroundings. 2. The climate changes in Arctic affects the people living in Arctic

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    The Northwest tribes (specifically the Haida tribe) and the Arctic tribes (specifically the Inuit tribe) are very different from each other. To start of thy live in very different climate zones and weather. In the northwest it is usually warm and humid. In the arctic it is usually cold and freezing.In the arctic they have to be very quick and swift to catch whales‚ seals‚ and walruses. In the northwest they also have to be very quick and swift to catch prey. They both have it hard but they manage

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    Assignment title: Love and Culture; A study of relationships among the Tamil‚ Fulbe‚ Inuit and Fiji Communities Module/course: ANTH150 - Identity and Difference: Introduction to Anthropolo It is said that people will forget what you do and say but they never forget how you make them feel. Love describes an emotion‚ act or thought. Love means different things to different people. Love becomes even more complex when studied in the cultural setting. Most cultures have their unique way of not

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