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the North Alaska Eskimos: a culture and personality perspective
Author(s) -
HIPPLER ARTHUR E.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1974.1.3.02a00040
Subject(s) - socialization , perspective (graphical) , personality , anthropology , sociology , psychology , social psychology , social science , art , visual arts
The seemingly paradoxical aspects of Eskimo culture and personality can be parsimoniously related to an Eskimo “cultural personality” whose roots in the socialization experience may explain much of adult Eskimo behavior. This concept is also useful in analyzing precontact “legal” systems and the two changes which have occurred since then.