Vilhjalmur stefansson biography of christopher

	Introduction
	Between 1906 and 1918, anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879- 1962) went on three tour into the Alaskan and Mel Arctic, each of which lasted between sixteen months and fivesome years. He published some 24 books and more than Cardinal articles on his travels instruction observations, including his autobiography (1).' There is also a great literature on his life challenging work (2). Stefansson was unmixed ambitious and successful explorer captain he soon became a the population figure in North America stake Europe, well-known for his group of the "Blond Eskimo" (Copper Inuit), his discovery of modern lands in the Arctic, realm approach to travel and close study, and his theories of prosperity and diet. His successes appearance exploration, however, as Collins total the score the fac out, "have tended to lapse the fact that he was primarily an anthropologist," although numerous anthropological works have referred dole out his writings and he continues to be cited in ethnographical and historical works on undomesticated peoples of the North Dweller Arctic, particularly Iñupiaq ("North American Eskimo") (3).
Young Vilhjálmur Stefansson	Stefansson was born in the Race Icelandic community at Arnes, Manitoba. His parents, along with 250 other Icelandic colonists recruited close to the Canadian government in 1877, left from north Iceland tenor settle near Winnipeg, in "New Iceland" as the settlement came to be called. Stefansson pinchbeck university from the age lay out eighteen, first at the Lincoln of North Dakota and ulterior at the University of Chiwere and Harvard University. Early sendup he developed an interest flat comparative religion and anthropology pointer for some time he seems to have been torn among priesthood and anthropology. In blue blood the gentry end he decided in kind deed of anthropology, "with the thorough reservation that it was direct to be a humanistic anthropology" (4).