Anthropologist Franz Boas didn't mean to spark a century-long argument. Traveling through the icy wastes of Baffin Island in northern Canada during the 1880s, Boas simply wanted to study the life of ...

across the Canadian far north, and up to the coast of Greenland. While the term Inuit is preferred to Eskimo by many in Canada, the term is retained here because (a) it properly refers to any Eskimo ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them—reflecting what they value and experience daily. So perhaps it's no surprise different languages highlight different areas of ...

RESOLUTE BAY, Canada — The ancient language of the Inuit, the nomadic hunters of the Arctic, is said to have more than 20 words for snow and a dozen ways to convey the direction “over there.” But ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. That old cliché is a lie. It’s long been discredited, or at least ...

As a professor and the editor of an academic journal, I read with pleasure William Germano’s clever reflection on the many ways we read (The Review, April 19). I smiled repeatedly as I saw myself in ...

There are three answers to this question: a heck of a lot, not that many, and a whole heck of a lot. Or, if you want specifics: 5, 2, and 99. Confused? The question has been problematic, and the best ...