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.