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Anthropology (ANTH) 307
The Inuit Way (Revision 3)

Revision 3 closed, replaced by current version.

Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Video component.*
*Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.

Credits: 3 - Social Science.

Prerequisite: ANTH 275 is recommended.

Centre: Centre for Work and Community Studies

ANTH 307 has a Challenge for Credit option.

Course website

Overview

This course is designed to provide the student with a general understanding of Inuit adaptations to the Arctic through time. While the course discusses some regional cultural adaptations the primary focus is on the Canadian Inuit.

Outline

Unit 1: The Land and Peoples of the Arctic

Unit 2: The Food Quest

Unit 3: Social Collaboration

Unit 4: Social Tension and Conflict

Unit 5: The Supernatural

Unit 6: Creative Expression

Unit 7: The Explorers

Unit 8: Missionaries, Traders and Government Officials

Unit 9: Settlement Life

Unit 10: Kabloona

Unit 11: Nunavut: Prospects and Dilemmas

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Evaluation

To receive credit for ANTH 307, you must achieve a grade of at least 60 percent on each of the examinations. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

3 Telephone
Quizzes		 2 Essays
(25% each)		 Mid-term Exam Final Exam Total
10% 50% 20% 20% 100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Balikci, Asen. 1970. The Netsilik Eskimo. Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press.

Brody, Hugh. 1975. The People's Land: Eskimos and Whites in the Eastern Arctic. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin.

Purich, Donald. 1992. The Inuit and their Land. Toronto: James Lorimer

Valentine, Victor F., and Frank G. Vallee. 1968. Eskimo of the Canadian Arctic. Carleton Library Series, No. 41. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.

Other Materials

The course materials also include a study guide, student manual, and a reading file.

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