Nanook, super-male: the polar bear in the imaginary space and social time of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic

Contrary to Western scientific thought which, particularly in the social sciences, has become accustomed to making explicit what it considers important, whether principles or facts, and all too often overestimates the explicit in what is observed, the pensée ‘sauvage’ of hunter-gatherers such as the Inuit prefers to conceal what is valued, keeping it implicit or expressed only in certain signs or outlines.