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David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy.

Please download. This is a beautiful duet and just wonderful.

I have basically moved in to Ball Hall. This is so sad. *hangs head* Ah well, currently working on my 10-12 page paper. It is not really going anywhere but at least I am interested in the topic. I think I need to drop into the library for more ethnographic information on the Inuit in general. As well as finding information (scholary) about when the term Inuit came into general use rather then the Algonquian perjorative Eskimo. It is interesting to note that the term Sioux actually came from, I believe, a french word that entered Algonquian and meant "adder" or enemy.

Conclusion: Algonquian languages are mean.

This is rather for my benefit but it is interesting to note that the Inuit religion is more a belief system. Looking at the culture from Evans-Pritchard's (My academic great-grandaddy) thesis that "religion is the recipricoal relationship between humans and spirits," then yes the belief system is a religion. I am supposed to analyze and critique E-P's thesis as well as Needham (who basically says religion does not exist or that it is just a cultural construct), and Geertz (R.I.P; whose definition is so broad that capitalism is a religion; not to speak ill of the dead but damn that symbolic anthropologist).

Back to the Inuit.