Eskimology

thumb|250px|Map by the Inuit Circumpolar Council showing Inuit and Yupik homelands.

Eskimology or Inuitology is a complex of humanities and sciences studying, in historical and comparative context, the languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of the speakers of Eskimo–Aleut languages: Inuit, Yupik and Aleut (or Unangam), sometimes collectively known as Eskimos. This includes ethnic groups from the Chukchi Peninsula on the far eastern tip of Siberia in Russia, through Alaska of the United States, Canada's Inuit Nunangat, including the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut, through NunatuKavut (but not the Gulf of St. Lawrence area), to Greenland of Denmark. Originally, an Eskimologist or Inuitologist was primarily a linguist or philologist who researched Eskimo or Inuit languages.