Between Two Cultures

by Maria Tippett, Terry Ryan (Foreword by), Charles Gimpel (Photographer)

Contains 120 Arctic photographs of the Inuit in the Canadian Eastern Arctic, revealing both a land and people in the midst of change. The author immersed herself in the Inuit culture and landscape and witnessed the Inuit world changing at lightning speed: traditional clothing, modes of transportation and homes were being transformed by the influence of Western mass culture. The photographs delicately record this rapidly changing world and the predicament of a people caught between two cultures: as well as showing the Inuit in their traditional way of life, they also emphasize the extent to which the Inuit were becoming reliant on the material culture of the South.

178 pages, Hardcover

First published September 6, 1994