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Image missingFig. 2.Harvaqtôrmiut from a camp at lower Kazan River where women and children had never before seen white men. incorporated, they have provided the impulse for a new kind of secondary adaptation, in this case it is the geographical situation of the Eskimo culture, its access to intercourse with outside forms of culture, that is determinative. Its remoteness of situation from the great centres of civilisation in southern México and Guatemala on the one hand and China on the other has already been pointed out previous-