A Trip to Canada’s Far North

My father has always had an interest in Inuit art, but he took me by surprise one day when he suggested we pay a visit to Canada’s far north. His initial motivation in going there was to see the Inuit stone carvings. Later, however, he became more and more curious about the Inuit culture in [...]

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Why to study the Pre-Contact Americas

What are we? Where are we from? Where do we go?

Paul Gauguin (1897)
People study history because of some hidden motivations. Perhaps the more important is to know better what role we play in the world. Of the tree classical questions above, history has the potential to answer partially at least two of them: “what are [...]

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