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SIKU : knowing our ice : documenting Inuit sea ice knowledge and use
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- Creator
- Igor Krupnik [and others], editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xxxi, 501 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789048186488, 9789048185863, 904818648X, 9789048185870, 9048185866, 9048185874
- OCLC
- ocn471803574, ocn663093719
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- SIKU : International Polar Year Project #166 (an overview) / Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, and Gita J. Laidler -- Weather variability and changing sea ice use in Qeqertaq, West Greenland, 1987-2008 / Pierre Taverniers -- Mapping Inuit sea ice knowledge, use, and change in Nunavut, Canada (Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung) / Gita J. Laidler [and others] -- "It's cold, but not cold enough" : observing ice and climate change in Gambell, Alaska, in IPY 2007-2008 and beyond / Igor Krupnik, Leonard Apangalook Sr., and Paul Apangalook -- Sea ice distribution and ice use by indigenous walrus hunters on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska / Marie-Luise Kapsch, Hajo Eicken, and Martin Robards -- Sila-Inuk : study of the impacts of climate change in Greenland / Lene Kielsen Holm -- The sea, the land, the coast, and the winds : understanding Inuit sea ice use in context / Claudio Aporta -- The Igliniit Project : combining Inuit knowledge and geomatics engineering to develop a new observation tool for hunters / Shari Gearheard, Gary Aipellee, and Kyle O'Keefe -- Assessing the shorefast ice : Iñupiat whaling trails off Barrow, Alaska / Matthew L. Druckenmiller [and others] -- Creating an online cybercartographic atlas of Inuit sea ice knowledge and use / Peter L. Pulsifer [and others] -- The power of multiple perspectives : behind the scenes of the Siku-Inuit-Hila Project / Henry P. Huntington, Shari Gearheard, and Lene Kielsen Holm -- Knowings about Sigu : Kigiqtaamiut hunting as an experiential pedagogy / Josh Wisniewski -- The ice is always changing : Yup'ik understandings of sea ice, past and present / Ann Fienup-Riordan and Alice Rearden -- Qanuq ilitaavut : "how we learned what we know" (Wales Inupiaq sea ice dictionary) / Igor Krupnik and Winton (Utuktaaq) Weyapuk Jr. -- Indigenous knowledge and sea ice science : what can we learn from indigenous ice users? / Hajo Eicken -- Franz Boas and Inuktitut terminology for ice and snow : from the emergence of the field to the "great Eskimo vocabulary hoax" / Igor Krupnik and Ludger Müller-Wille -- Inuit sea ice terminology in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut / Alana Johns -- Two Greenlandic sea ice lists and some considerations regarding Inuit sea ice terms / Nicole Tersis and Pierre Taverniers -- Partnerships in policy : what lessons can we learn from IPY SIKU? / Anne Henshaw -- Epilogue : the humanism of sea ice / Michael T. Bravo
Subjects
- SIKU Project.
- Traditional ecological knowledge -- Arctic regions.
- Ethnoscience -- Arctic regions.
- Inuit.
- Sea ice -- Arctic regions.
- Climatic changes -- Arctic regions.
- Research -- Arctic regions.
- International Polar Year, 2007-2008.
- Human ecology -- Arctic regions.
- Ethnobiology -- Arctic regions.
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Arctic regions.
- Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Arctic regions.
- Arctic regions -- Research.
- Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions.