The Fast Runner Trilogy
The Fast Runner trilogy is available free online. The films are made by Inuits and for Inuits and are a great window into a way of life that few of us are truly aware of beyond "Eskimo" stereotypes.
View ArticleWise Traditions Recap
I spent this weekend in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania at the Weston A. Price Foundation's Wise Traditions conference with John Durant and Allison Bojarski. I live-Tweeted it, but here is also a list of...
View ArticlePlants That We Eat
One of the views that I get the most email about is my assertion that Inuit ate and still do eat plants. I have gotten dozens of emails saying I am wrong because of1. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, an...
View ArticleAda Blackjack
Hmmm...just got done doing chores and it's time for bed? Nope, it's time to disobey Robb Wolf's wise advice about sleep and continue December's theme of heroes gone wrong.Today it's Vilhjalmur...
View ArticlePlants That We Eat: Nauriat Niginaqtaut - From the traditional wisdom of the...
Author: Anore JonesPic: Buy: Plants That We Eat: Nauriat NiginaqtautThis wonderful ethnography challenges stereotypes about Arctic food, revealing a cuisine that is surprisingly diverse.Reading...
View ArticleWhen traditions go awry
Sick Societies is an interesting book, but in many ways it's scattershot. An anecdote out of context doesn't always illuminate whether or not a tradition is the cause of the "sickness," in this case...
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