Culture Change and Integration: An Eskimo Example¹

Resource development and aboriginal culture in the Canadian north

“…Scholars such as Honnigmann (1965) and Chance (1960) were leaders in tracking the acculturation of aboriginal communities and the challenges along this path of modernisation. For example, the theoretical paradigms underlying anthropology have shifted significantly.…”

Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Cross-Cultural Health Research

“…Using three or more "Yes" answers as a criterion of significant symptomatology, The previous field study had indicated that a large majority of these Eskimos were making a very positive adjustment to the rapid and extensive changes taking place in the village. 4 If this is the case, we would expect to find these people relatively free of anxiety symptoms. At the same time, it was also noted that many of the middle-aged and older Eskimo women had had less contact with North Americans and the outside world and were, therefore, undergoing slower and less extensive acculturation than Eskimo men.…”

The Contemporary Situation of the Eskimos (1940-1960) and the Problem of their Future in the Works of American and Canadian Ethnographers

“…For example, from 1946 to 1952, 75 to 80 Point Barrow Eskimos were annually engaged in oil prospecting. (14) Prior to 1945, hunting had been the majoFoccupation of virtually all the inhabitants of the village of Kaktowik, (15) In 1958, only three residents of that villa&-regularly engaged in hunting, of whom two had just recently returned from a tuberculosis hospital and were not employable. All the other men in the village were engaged in building radar stations.…”