Art and Subsistence at Cape Dorset

Eric Crampton's elegant post on the origins of Inuit print-making at Cape Dorset in Canada: 50 years of Cape Dorset prints . 

His theme is the impetus cross-cultural contact can give to creativity.  There are useful links to a newspaper story on Cape Dorset (on Baffin Island) and on the way its subsistence and artistic economies coexist and complement each other, and to a debate between Tyler Cowen of George Mason and Benjamin Barber of the University of Maryland about what globalization does to culture.

All this, and pretty pictures too.

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We claim that we are living in the era of cosmopolitans, but it isn't true. In fact, we still have too many prejudices. So really, cross-cultural contacts are necessary