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In 1950, fate beckoned Jean Malaurie. A young scientist studying in the Sahara Desert, he was granted permission to conduct an expedition in the ?cold desert" around the North Pole. There he would be living among the northernmost people of the world, the Polar Eskimos of Thule, Greenland.The men of Thule were a race apart. Through geographical isolation and the social planning of Greenlandic Eskimo explorer Knud Rasmussen, they had managed for decades to maintain an advanced, self-sufficient Inuit culture independent of their colonial masters, the Danes. They were truly kings: strong individualists, heroic hunters. Yet they continued to maintain a form of pure communalism, sharing food, property, labor ? even offspring and sexual mates. Thievery was practically unknown among them. In all of Greenland there was no jail.This is the society into which Jean Malaurie was granted intimate entry for one historic year. His experience was the last of a kind for at the end of that year the
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