Eskimos - A Changing Culture

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Bailey Film Associates (BFA)

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Features the Alaskan Eskimos in Mekoyuk village, Nunivak Island, Bering Sea. The film debates the extent to which changes in family patterns, values and other elements of Alaskan culture are related to changes in technology and examines the changes in the last 50 years in the culture of the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. Showing eating, hunting, fishing, reindeer roundup, a packing plant and native store, the film also describes how the children leave the village for four years to go to high school in the city., Presents the question to what extent are changes in family patterns, values and other elements of culture related to changes in technology. Uses the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea to examine such changes as they have occurred in the lifetime of the present generation. , Presents the question to what extent are changes in family patterns, values and other elements of culture related to changes in technology. Uses the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea to examine such changes as they have occurred in the lifetime of the present generation.

Complete Record: Features the Alaskan Eskimos in Mekoyuk village, Nunivak Island, Bering Sea. The film debates the extent to which changes in family patterns, values and other elements of Alaskan culture are related to changes in technology and examines the changes in the last 50 years in the culture of the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. Showing eating, hunting, fishing, reindeer roundup, a packing plant and native store, the film also describes how the children leave the village for four years to go to high school in the city., Presents the question to what extent are changes in family patterns, values and other elements of culture related to changes in technology. Uses the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea to examine such changes as they have occurred in the lifetime of the present generation. , Presents the question to what extent are changes in family patterns, values and other elements of culture related to changes in technology. Uses the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea to examine such changes as they have occurred in the lifetime of the present generation. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.