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MAIN Assignment

For this session, you will watch a portion of the film "Nanook of the North," a silent film by Robert Flaherty considered the first great anthropological film. Though by today's standards, the film is considered to be an overly romanticized and caricatured version of Inuit (preferred term for Eskimo) life, because the film makes Nanook more of a childlike character than a fully adult male, it is nonetheless a film classic and a valuable document of a lifestyle that was being lost even as the film was being made. This is where your forum assignment for the week comes in: considering that you read about cultural change, I want you to think about what parts of Inuit life have likely changed since Nanook's day, and what has been gained or lost in the process. This is not a research paper, but an exercise in your imagination. How do you imagine Inuit life to be today compared to Nanook's time (1920's), and are the changes overall for the better?

Remember, please answer this prompt with 350 words.  Feel free to write more, if you would like.  Also, please note that you need to respond to one classmate with at least a 150-word response. 

MOIVE LINK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoUafjAH0cg