Hare, F. Kenneth

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REVIEWS 239 Utku life in the poignant  account of her feelings of helplessness and anxiety after she had unwittingly allowed her anger to  show through. By so doing  she had violated  a  basic rule of the tension-management game, as is suggested by the  title Never in Anger, thereby drawing  towards  her  a  set of subtle  sanctions from  her adoptive  father  and  others. Supplementing and complementing  the narrative  portion of the book are a glossary and three appendices, the most remarkable of which is a 55-page section on emotion concepts among the Utku. In it Dr. Briggs deals systematically with ways of communi- cating  hostility and affection and how the in- formal  sanction system is used in  the  control of emotional expression. This excellent ap- pendix, which is distilled from  the preceding narrative, is an  important  contribution to the  literature  on  the  Eskimos  and will serve as  an  inspiration and  as  a major  reference for comparative studies in the future. This book is must reading for  those with a special interest in the Eskimos. I strongly recommend it, not only to anthropologists, linguists, psychologists and sociologists, but to any  lovers of literature who like  their non-fiction to taste like fiction. It should be of particular value to teachers of methods and techniques of research  as  a classical example  of  participant  observation. Finally,  the book is handsomely  produced. Perhaps  because of the  discursive and wide- ranging  narrative  portion,  the  preparation of an index would have been prohibitive. In  my case,  there is no index. Frank G.  Vallee ATLAS OF CLIMATIC MAPS, SERIES 1 TO 10. Canada Department of Transport, Me- teorological Branch, 1967-1970. 17 x 22 inches, 59 pages. $8.00. This collection of maps is the nucleus of a climatic  Atlas for  Canada,  replacing  the 1952 Climatological Atlas, edited by Morley K. Thomas, that has been such a stand-by. The new maps are based mostly on  the  stan- dard period 1931-1960, and will serve for  a decade as the authoritative survey in map form of the Canadian climate. Monthly  precipitation and  mean daily temperatures  are  covered by full-page  charts for  each month, with  annual  means or totals also  mapped.  English  units  are  retained,  but the isolines are chosen for values that con- vert  readily to  metric equivalents - putting Canada ahead of U.S. practice, but behind the British, who are now fully decimalized. There are smaller monthly charts of mean sea-level  pressure,  bright  sunshine,  cloud amount, global  solar  radiation, vapour pres- sure, lake evaporation and daily maximum and  minimum  temperatures.  Compatibility has been achieved with  the Climatic  Atlas of the United States (Environmental Data Ser- vice, 1968), though the coverage is still less comprehensive  than in  the U.S. Northern  territories  are  fully  included, though  the  isolines are necessarily more gen- eralized  than  in the  south,  and recourse  must have been had  to  standardization techniques for broken  and short term  records;  the  Joint U.S.-Canadian weather  stations in the Queen Elizabeth  Islands,  for  example,  do not extend far back into  the 1931-60  period. The text, though  brief, is fully  bilingual. F .  Kenneth Hare RAVEN,  CREATOR OF THE WORLD: ESKIMO  LEGENDS  RETOLD. BY RONALD MELZAK. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 01970. 9% X 7 inches, 91 pages, illustrated. $4.95. Raven had been flying throughout eternity, when one  day  a snowflake caught on his wing and  rolled down, becoming a  small  snowball, then  larger  and  larger  till finally Raven hurled  the  snowball  through  space.  Eventual- ly it grew so large that Raven was able to stand  on it -the first time  he had ever  stood on solid “ground”. And so the world was created. Having  accomplished  this feat Raven went on to people the world with Eskimos, ani- mals and flowers, and then set out to light it with the sun, moon and stars. Raven’s hardest job was his  search for happiness. Whether as himself, or disguised as a  human, his own happiness on  earth seemed to be fleeting; but in the  end, know- ing  that  what  he  had  created was good, and admonishing  the  children  i   the village where he was that, though it  all began with him the  future was up  to  them, he flew off, never to be seen again. There are 10 stories about Raven in this handsome  book. Because Raven was a  mag- ical  person,  the  stories  are so. They  are charmingly  retold - simply,  without conde scension. This is a  book that will be enjoyed as much by the adults who read it aloud as by the children who listen. It is a welcome com- panion to  Dr. Melzak’s  first book of Eskimo tales  “The  day  Tuk became a hunter”. The book is sturdily bound, and is illus- trated by Laszlo Gal. Nora T.   Corky  

Atlas of Climatic Maps, Series 1 to 10.

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