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Record #110805:

How Inuit find their way in the trackless Arctic / David F. Pelly.

Title: How Inuit find their way in the trackless Arctic / David F. Pelly.
Author(s): Pelly, David F.
Date: 1991.
In: Canadian Geographic. (1991.), Vol. 111(4) (1991)
Abstract: Describes traditional navigational techniques based on linear conceptualization of landscape as opposed to areal conceptualization of most other cultures. Also, discusses Inuit cartography.
Notes:

Canadian Geographic. Vol. 111(4) :58-64 (1991).

Keywords: 39 -- Ethnography: Eskimo.
113/119 -- Attitudes to nature.
527 -- Navigation.
527.62 -- Navigation, determination of position.
528.9 -- Cartography.
T -- Social anthropology and ethnography.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
SPRI record no.: 110805

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