Chapter 1: Imagining the Inuit
Arctic Urban Legends
Learning about the Eskimo
See You in the Movies
"In This Movie, You Will Be an Eskimo"
White Lies Not Included
The Word
Eskimo and Its Meanings
Does Eating Raw Mean Eating
People Raw?
Who Are You Calling Inuit, White Man?
Part of a Larger Picture
Chapter 2: Four Major White Figures
Franz Boas: A Paternalistic Father of Anthropology
Stefansson and Jenness: Two Polar Opposites
Farley Mowat: Subjective Non-fiction, Essential Truths, or Fxxx the Facts?
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Fifty-two Words for Snow
A Source of Humour: Jokes about Inuit Snow Terms
It All Began with Boas
Enter Diamond Jenness
Benjamin Whorf
Downplaying the Number of Inuit Snow Terms: An Ignored Source
The Birth of 20 Snow Terms: A Sociological Tradition Since 1968
Numbers Ending with Two: 52, 42, 32, 22
Farley Mowat Takes the Number to an Artistic High: 100
How
Do Inuktitut and English Differ in Terms for Snow?
English Is Good in the Snow, Too
So How Many "Words" Are There for Snow?
Seven Primary Terms for Snow
Negative Implications of the Inuit Snow Term Cliche
Summary
Chapter 4: The Myth of the Blond Eskimo
The Blond Eskimo: A Popular Figure
The Copper Inuit
First Contact
Lost Races
Stefansson Discovers the Blond Eskimo and Finds Funding
The Greenland Norse and Their Fate
The Blond Eskimo Captures the Literary Imagination
Jenness Takes Up the Challenge
The Return of the Blond Eskimo
Negative Implications of the Blond Eskimo
Chapter 5: Elders on Ice
A Popular Story: Going with the Floes
Why Shouldn't You Believe the Story?
When is Abandonment Really Abandonment?
The Deep Roots of This Myth: Beginnings as Euthanasia
Growing the Myth
Altruistic Suicide, Mores, and Cultural Relativism
Anthropologists Introduce Environmental Causality
Balikci Uses Psychology to Blame the Victim
Guemple Uses Anthropology to Blame the Victim
Colonial Contact: A Neglected Causality
Farley Mowat Popularizes Inuit Elder Abandonment and Suicide
Inuit Suicide Today
Chapter 6: The Lies Do Not Stand Alone
Inuit Snow Terms, Hanunoo Rice Terms, and Nuer Cow Colours
The Blond Eskimo: Atlanteans, Welsh Princes, and the Irish Sati
The Inuit as a Canadian Construct
Best in the Bush
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
