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Eskimology or Inuitology is a complex of humanities and sciences Area studies the languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of the speakers of Eskimo–Aleut languages and Inuit, Yupik peoples and Aleut (or Unangam), sometimes collectively known as , in historical and comparative context. 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.Søren Thuesen (2005), Eskimology. In Mark Nuttall (editor). Encyclopedia of the Arctic. Vol 1, 2 and 3. pp. 585–586 Originally, an Eskimologist or Inuitologist was primarily a Linguistics or Philology who researches Eskimo or Inuit languages.
The term "Eskimology" was not common until 1967, when a genuine department was established and officially named the Department of Eskimology. From the late 1960s, Eskimology changed its focus toward increasingly contemporary and global political issues. In 2019, the department changed its name to Greenlandic and Arctic Studies Section (a section within the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies). The Greenlandic and Arctic Studies Section offers full BA and MA programmes. In these programmes, the study of the Greenlandic language and the socio-cultural issues of Greenland / Arctic are central.
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