Steckley Respond “Why is that the Inuit are conceived of in ways different from those of Indians?” John L. Steckley (Steckey, 2007). Steckley worked as a research assistant for the Jean Briggs from 1974-1975 studied about the Inuit population and has not been accomplished about Inuit people. Besides that, Inuit stories has been teaching by Steckley in anthropology class in college over last 20 years, but he has taught lies that was the white lies. As anthropologists, we should address correctly the questions of representation, cultural translation and seeks to understand cultural diversity; thus, as anthropology students, we try to understand the culture of others by living with and developing long-term relationships with that community through participant observation.…show more content… Who is the Inuit in Western has known? Laura Martin ideas that Inuit are people in Arctic with poorly understood group, eat raw meat, giving their wives as gifts to strangers, rubs noses or “Inuit Kiss” instead of kissing, and finally they will leave their elderly out on ice floes to die. Moreover, in the past, Inuit people was treated either as collectors’ items or showpieces contributed to the exoticizing process, and they, Inuit, shown off as living museum exhibits. In addition, for the documentary movie about Inuit, Steckley wrote that “Inuit have been played by Greeks, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese- anyone who is not blond haired and blue eyed.” (235, Steckey, 2007). All of those information that we had known about Inuit people that either we read at the books at schools or we hear someone tell us the stories or watching the “documentary” movie about Inuit or Eskimo people. Thus, all the things we have known about Inuit cultural was not the true. I, personally, just question myself that: Do the Inuit really eat the raw meat? Do they share wife with each other? And Do they really leave the elderly out on the ice floes to
