The Wenger Eskimo Anthropological Database: a valuable research tool.
The goal of the Wenger Eskimo Database Project is to develop a full-text database of early and primary written ethnographic sources in English on Inuit/Eskimo peoples and to make it available on CD-ROM, both to northern residents and to students and researchers dealing with northern topics. This paper describes the database, sets out a brief history of its growth, and describes recent developments, including the addition of new materials and a Windows format. The paper includes a demonstration of how the database may be used for health-related research. The database is available free of charge to nonprofit institutions that are willing to meet some simple, basic requirements.
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Alaska and Polar Regions Department, Rasmuson Library, USA.
D000413:Alaska; D000883:Anthropology; D016251:CD-ROM; D003626:Data Display; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D004930:Inuit; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface