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Re: Inuit rules for kayak design.
Posted By: Ross Miller In Response To: Re: Inuit rules for kayak design. (Nick Schade)
Date: Wednesday, 20 October 1999, at 9:58 p.m.
> What is so simple...
Nick,
By focusing on my last sentence you make me sound as paternalistic and condescending as the scientists I criticize. I hope that my post in its entirety makes my meaning clear: that whether or not it can be proven scientifically, it is more than likely that conscious and deliberate innovation did occur.
As for "simple," I was referring to the lives of all people considered by "advanced" types to be primitive, not just arctic people. I did not mean it in the sense of "easy," but I do think that their lives are in many ways less complex than ours, not necessarily a bad thing. Specific tasks vary in their complexity - I, too, have more respect for the skills it takes to live a subsistence existence with one's own boat and harpoon than for those of a stockbroker - but if you make like an anthropologist and count up all those tasks and rituals, implements and artifacts, you'll find that we moderns have a whole lot more, for what they're worth.
We're on the same side here, Nick, and if you want to go seal hunting let me know. My sister told me there was one all the way up the river to the Holyoke Dam.
Ross Miller
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