The Many Ways of Being Human

8.1

Beringia and the Inuit

The lamp is a flat stone hollowed into a half-moon, filled with seal oil, with a line of moss for a wick along its straight edge. It lights the room, heats it, and melts snow into drinking water. From that qulliq and the snow house around it, the chapter follows the Inuit across six million square kilometers of Arctic, where the word iglu means any house at all.