Abstract
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance. Cultures can be "understood as systems of symbols and meanings that lack fixed boundaries, that are constantly in flux, and that interact and compete with one another".
Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, games, norms of behaviour such as law and morality, and systems of belief as well as the art.
Regarding the Inuit art, it is fundamental since it allows them to assert their culture and to receive economic fallout. The 1950`s is a period of extreme change in Inuit culture. Inuit are forced by the government to settle into villages close to the trading posts. They develop a new way of living, depending on exported goods for their survival, needing for them and for governments to find new ways to assure their survival.
