Observations on the Intellectual Culture of the Caribou Eskimos (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Observations on the Intellectual Culture of the Caribou Eskimos (Classic Reprint) written by Knud Rasmussen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Observations on the Intellectual Culture of the Caribou Eskimos While with these people I endeavoured especially to enter into their intellectual life and their religious notions, and in the following I shall describe the results of these studies. But if my statement is to some extent summary and the material is presented in somewhat raw form, it is because this tribe has already been dealt with so thoroughly by birket-smith that my contribution aims merely at revealing certain aspects of this people's intellectual culture which are not included in birket-smith's book. It is true that the Caribou Eskimos in these regions have formerly been visited by such prominent travellers as the Tyrrell brothers and by Hanbury, but as these expeditions had other objects than the study of the people, and particularly as none of them could speak Eskimo. The material we succeeded in procuring will in all essentials be new. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.