Talk:walk in the snow
Cultural influences on etymology
- 1960, Savage Innocents (Film starring Anthony Quinn, based on novel Top of the World.)
- 1950, Hans Reusch, Top of the World
- The wife Asiak walks across the sea ice to drown herself in the open water. At the edge, a piece of ice breaks free under her weight and she floats along on this small ice floe briefly before drowning herself.
- The mother-in-law Powtee is put out on the solid sea ice to die, only to be rescued soon after.
Further reading:
- Wikipedia - Inuit suicide, murder, and death
- Did eskimos put their elderly on ice floes to die by Straightdope.com
- Leighton, Alexander H; Charles C. Hughes (1955). "Notes on Eskimo Patterns of Suicide". Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 11
- Kjellström, Rolf (1974, 1975). "Senilicide and Invalidicide among the Eskimos" (in Danish). Folk Dansk etnografisk tidsskrift 16, 17
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- Ray, Nicolas (Director). (1960). Savage Innocents. [Motion picture]. United States, Gray Film-Pathé. Starring Anthony Quinn, based on novel Top of the World.
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The following information is uncited, implausible (Trudeau literally did take a walk in the snow,) and appears to have originated on Wikipedia.
Taken from the oversimplified idea that elderly Inuit performed customary suicide by exposure during times of hardship.[1][2][3][4][5]
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- (Canada, idiomatic) suicide, assisted suicide, or muder by exposure.
- 1950, Hans Reusch, Top of the World
- The wife Asiak walks across the sea ice to drown herself in the open water. At the edge, a piece of ice breaks free under her weight and she floats along on this small ice floe briefly before drowning herself.
- The mother-in-law Powtee is put out on the solid sea ice to die, only to be rescued soon after.
- 1960, Savage Innocents (Film starring Anthony Quinn, based on novel Top of the World.)
- 1950, Hans Reusch, Top of the World
- ^ Did eskimos put their elderly on ice floes to die by Straightdope.com accessed 2010-05-01.
- ^ Leighton, Alexander H; Charles C. Hughes (1955). "Notes on Eskimo Patterns of Suicide". Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 11
- ^ Kjellström, Rolf (1974, 1975). "Senilicide and Invalidicide among the Eskimos" (in Danish). Folk Dansk etnografisk tidsskrift 16, 17
- ^ Oswalt, Wendell H. (1999) Eskimos and Explorers, 2nd ed, →ISBN
- ^ Ray, Nicolas (Director). (1960). Savage Innocents. [Motion picture]. United States, Gray Film-Pathé. Starring Anthony Quinn, based on novel Top of the World.