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Anthropometry in the Circumpolar Inuit
2012The Inuit are an indigenous population whose homeland today comprises Chukotka in Russia, Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland, with an estimated global population of 165,000. The rapid social and economic changes especially over the past half century have been accompanied by a health transition, for which anthropometry is well suited to provide ...
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Cancer patterns in Inuit populations [PDF]
The Lancet Oncology, 2008 Inuit people inhabit the circumpolar region, with most living in Alaska, northwest Canada, and Greenland. Although malignant diseases were believed to be almost non-existent in Inuit populations during the beginning of the 20th century, the increasing life expectancy within these populations showed a distinct pattern, characterised by a high risk of ...
Melbye, M., Friborg, Jeppe Tang
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Educational Media International, 1992
Abstract This article, which is the text of a speech delivered at the ICEM Reykjavik Conference, looks at how one aboriginal group in northern Canada has turned the ‘invasion’ of television to its own advantage, and how other groups are bonding together under the new Television Northern Canada Network.
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Abstract This article, which is the text of a speech delivered at the ICEM Reykjavik Conference, looks at how one aboriginal group in northern Canada has turned the ‘invasion’ of television to its own advantage, and how other groups are bonding together under the new Television Northern Canada Network.
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Selenium status in Greenland Inuit
Science of The Total Environment, 2004In Greenland, the human intake of selenium has always been relatively high and is closely connected to intake of the traditional food of marine origin. Analyses of historic and present day human and animal hair samples have indicated that the selenium level in the marine environment has been constant over time, while the levels in humans have declined ...
Hansen, J.C., Deutch, B., Pedersen, H.S.
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Museum Anthropology, 1994
The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture. Harold Seidelman and James Turner. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994. 224 pp. 173 color illustrations, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth).
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The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture. Harold Seidelman and James Turner. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994. 224 pp. 173 color illustrations, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth).
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Inuit Dreams, Inuit Realities: Shattering the Bonds of Dependency
American Review of Canadian Studies, 2001The Inuit--The People-of Canada have long dreamed of creating their own territory out of the former Northwest Territories. With the birth of Nunavut--Our Land--on 1 April 1999, that dream has come true. Proposed since 1974, Nunavut was approved by Native constituents in 1979.
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Technology and Inuit identity: Facebook use by Inuit youth
AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2018This article discusses the relationship between technology and Inuit identity. Using interviews, it explores how a group of students from the Arctic College located in the community of Iqaluit in the Canadian Arctic, use the social network Facebook.
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American Journal of Human Biology, 1995
AbstractBasal metabolic rates (BMR) at the end of the winter of 1981–1982 were determined in both Inuit and subjects of European ancestry resident in Igloolik, N.W.T. (69°40'N, 81°W). Values for the Inuit sample (22 females, 14–53 years, and 30 males, 14–70 years) exceeded published body surface area norms by some 16–18%; they also exceeded the body ...
Andris Rode, Roy J. Shephard
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AbstractBasal metabolic rates (BMR) at the end of the winter of 1981–1982 were determined in both Inuit and subjects of European ancestry resident in Igloolik, N.W.T. (69°40'N, 81°W). Values for the Inuit sample (22 females, 14–53 years, and 30 males, 14–70 years) exceeded published body surface area norms by some 16–18%; they also exceeded the body ...
Andris Rode, Roy J. Shephard
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Curating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit Knowledge in the Qallunaat Art Museum
Art Journal, 2017Installation view, Ilippunga: I Have Learned, 2016, Brousseau Inuit Art Collection, Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec (photograph by Daniel Drouin provided by MNBAQ) It is not only to make mo...
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The ‘Third Gender’ of the Inuit
Diogenes, 2005At a time when western societies seem to have lost their markers, once found in sexual life, in gender relationships, in the sexual division of tasks, in standard definitions of the individual and the person, of family and kin, at a time, too, when they are bending under the weight of an exponential build-up of texts, theories and scientific ...
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