SIKU
Subtitle: knowing our ice : documenting Inuit sea ice knowledge and use
By: Igor Krupnik ... [et al.], editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9789048185863; 9789048186488; 9789048185870
Subjects: Ethnoscience; Climatic changes; SIKU Project; Nature; Traditional ecological knowledge; International Polar Year, 2007-2008; Research; Effect of environment on; Environmental conditions; Inuit; Ethnobiology; Human beings; Human ecology; Effect of human beings on; Sea ice
Other titles: Knowing our ice; Documenting Inuit sea ice knowledge and use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: SIKU : International Polar Year Project #166 (an overview) / Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, and Gita J. Laidler; title: Weather variability and changing sea ice use in Qeqertaq, West Greenland, 1987-2008 / Pierre Taverniers; title: Mapping Inuit sea ice knowledge, use, and change in Nunavut, Canada (Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung) / Gita J. Laidler ... [et al.]; title: "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; title: Sea ice distribution and ice use by indigenous walrus hunters on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska / Marie-Luise Kapsch, Hajo Eicken, and Martin Robards; title: Sila-Inuk : study of the impacts of climate change in Greenland / Lene Kielsen Holm; title: The sea, the land, the coast, and the winds : understanding Inuit sea ice use in context / Claudio Aporta; title: 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; title: Assessing the shorefast ice : Iñupiat whaling trails off Barrow, Alaska / Matthew L. Druckenmiller ... [et al.]; title: Creating an online cybercartographic atlas of Inuit sea ice knowledge and use / Peter L. Pulsifer ... [et al.]; title: The power of multiple perspectives : behind the scenes of the Siku-Inuit-Hila Project / Henry P. Huntington, Shari Gearheard, and Lene Kielsen Holm; title: Knowings about Sigu : Kigiqtaamiut hunting as an experiential pedagogy / Josh Wisniewski; title: The ice is always changing : Yup'ik understandings of sea ice, past and present / Ann Fienup-Riordan and Alice Rearden; title: Qanuq ilitaavut : "how we learned what we know" (Wales Inupiaq sea ice dictionary) / Igor Krupnik and Winton (Utuktaaq) Weyapuk Jr.; title: Indigenous knowledge and sea ice science : what can we learn from indigenous ice users? / Hajo Eicken; title: 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; title: Inuit sea ice terminology in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut / Alana Johns; title: Two Greenlandic sea ice lists and some considerations regarding Inuit sea ice terms / Nicole Tersis and Pierre Taverniers; title: Partnerships in policy : what lessons can we learn from IPY SIKU? / Anne Henshaw; title: Epilogue : the humanism of sea ice / Michael T. Bravo.