Eskimos: A Changing Culture

Duration: 17

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Wayne Mitchell

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Studies the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea to examine the ways technology has affected their family patterns, values, and other elements of culture. Focuses on Eskimo houses and dances, the trading store, and the annual reindeer drive and shows Eskimos picking wild celery and berries, getting clams, and fishing. Points out that the older children must go to a big city for their high school education because of the lack of facilities in their town., Studies the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea to determine the relationship of changes in family patterns, values, and other elements of culture to changes in technology.

Complete Record: Studies the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea to examine the ways technology has affected their family patterns, values, and other elements of culture. Focuses on Eskimo houses and dances, the trading store, and the annual reindeer drive and shows Eskimos picking wild celery and berries, getting clams, and fishing. Points out that the older children must go to a big city for their high school education because of the lack of facilities in their town., , Studies the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea to determine the relationship of changes in family patterns, values, and other elements of culture to changes in technology.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.