"Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo."

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Source : Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

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Source : Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963
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