David Robson

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How many Eskimo words for 'snow'? Maybe more than you think

Anthropologist Franz Boas didn't mean to spark a century-long argument. Traveling through the icy wastes of Baffin Island in northern Canada during the 1880s, Boas simply wanted to study the life of the local Inuit people.

By David Robson●

January 16, 2013 at 8:58 am