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Inuit Clothing: A Study in the Transformation of Culture
Principal Investigator: Driscoll, Bernadette T.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The researcher will examine indigenous clothing design and clothing change in the Kitikmeot region. She will record the historical change from fur to fabric clothing, as well as investigate the continuing importance of fur clothing to hunters and detail the social and economic significance of maintaining sewing skills within Inuit families. It will be the first anthropological study to examine c...


Subsistence Hunting as an Economic/Ideological Adaptation among Young Canadian Inuit Adults
Principal Investigator: Condon, Richard G.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1988 1987
Summary: This ethnographic research project is designed to examine the degree to which young Inuit households are involved in traditional subsistence harvesting and how these activities are supplemented by recently introduced wage employment opportunities. The study will utilize participant-observation as well as formal and informal interviews....


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