Franz boas and Inuktitut terminology for ice and snow: From the emergence of the field to the great Eskimo vocabulary hoax

SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 377-400

  Krupnik, Igor ^a   Müller Wille, Ludger ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baffin Island; Franz Boas; Ice and snow terminology; Inuktitut

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892218003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8587-0_16     Document Type: Chapter

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