Research Catalog

Title

SIKU : knowing our ice : documenting Inuit sea ice knowledge and use / Igor Krupnik ... [et al.], editors.

Publication

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Krupnik, Igor.

Description

xxxi, 501 p. : ill., maps (some col.); 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• Documenting Inuit sea ice knowledge and use
• Knowing our ice

Subject

• Arctic regions > Environmental conditions
• Arctic regions > Research
• Climatic changes > Environmental aspects > Arctic regions
• Ethnobiology > Arctic regions
• Ethnoscience > Arctic regions
• Human beings > Effect of environment on > Arctic regions
• Human ecology > Arctic regions
• International Polar Year, 2007-2008
• Inuit
• Nature > Effect of human beings on > Arctic regions
• Research > Arctic regions
• Sea ice > Arctic regions
• Traditional ecological knowledge > Arctic regions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 ... [et al.] -- "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 ... [et al.] -- Creating an online cybercartographic atlas of Inuit sea ice knowledge and use / Peter L. Pulsifer ... [et al.] -- 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.

ISBN

• 9789048185863 (hbk.)
• 9048185866 (hbk.)
• 9789048186488 (pbk.)
• 904818648X (pbk.)
• 9789048185870 (e-ISBN) (canceled/invalid)

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library