Eskimo Family

Duration: 22

Genre: Educational | Ethnographic

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Pictures an Eskimo family during its journey to and its life in a spring hunting and camp site; its summer visit to a trading post at a nearby town; and its brief contact with modern technology as represented by industrial and military installations in the Arctic. Places emphasis upon the acculturation of the Eskimo's as evidenced by their acceptance of increased use of manufactured goods and their adoption of westernized homes, appliances, and employment in skilled and semi-skilled industrial and construction work., Scenes of the day-to-day life of an Eskimo family. Explores the culture from nomads to town dwellers.

Complete Record: Pictures an Eskimo family during its journey to and its life in a spring hunting and camp site; its summer visit to a trading post at a nearby town; and its brief contact with modern technology as represented by industrial and military installations in the Arctic. Places emphasis upon the acculturation of the Eskimo's as evidenced by their acceptance of increased use of manufactured goods and their adoption of westernized homes, appliances, and employment in skilled and semi-skilled industrial and construction work., Scenes of the day-to-day life of an Eskimo family. Explores the culture from nomads to town dwellers., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.