White Lies About the Inuit (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom)

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The Inuit are a familiar a part of Canadian identity but in addition exotic residing Within the remote Arctic. The mix of the familiar and the exotic has resulted Within the creation and perpetuation of numerous “White Lies.” These are stories which have been developed over long periods of time, reproduced in classrooms, anthropology and sociology textbooks, and other media, but have been rarely challenged, contributing to misunderstandings that have in the long run, in subtle ways, diminished the stature of Inuit traditional culture. 

In this energetic book, designed specifically for introductory students, Steckley unpacks three “White Lies”—the myth that there are fifty-two words for snow, that there are blond, blue-eyed Inuit descended from the Vikings, and that the Inuit send off their elders to die on ice floes. Debunking these popular myths allows him to illustrate how knowledge is shaped by Western social science, particularly the anthropology of the “Other,” and that it may be improper. Within the process, students learn not only about Inuit culture, but in regards to the difference between popular and scholarly research.

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