Traditional ecological knowledge and Inuit: reflections on TEK research and ethics. From: Arctic | Date: June 1, 1999| Author: Wenzel, George W. | COPYRIGHT 1999 Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

GEORGE W. WENZEL (1)

(Received 24 February 1998; accepted in revised form 20 January 1999)

ABSTRACT. The intimate knowledge that Inuit possess about the environment has figured prominently in North American Arctic research since at least the mid-1960s, when adherents of Julian Steward's adaptationist perspective essentially displaced the acculturation paradigm that until then had dominated Inuit studies. While Nelson's Hunters of the Northern Ice is the proto...

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