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Apun : The Arctic Snow /

There are some twenty-five words for "snow" in the Inupiaq language. Each word denotes a different kind of snow-fresh powder snow, hard pack, soft snow, very wet snow, or just snow. Such fine distinction is reasonable, for over the centuries, Natives of the Arctic have had to rely on their...

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Autor principal: Sturm, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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