SIKU: Knowing Our Ice (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
501
Utgivningsdatum
2010-07-21
Upplaga
2010
Förlag
Springer
Medarbetare
Krupnik, Igor (ed.), Aporta, Claudio (ed.), Gearheard, Shari (ed.), Laidler, Gita J. (ed.)
Illustrationer
XXXI, 501 p.
Dimensioner
226 x 155 x 33 mm
Vikt
749 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Paperback / softback
ISBN
9789048186488

SIKU: Knowing Our Ice

Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use

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By exploring indigenous peoples knowledge and use of sea ice, the SIKU project has demonstrated the power of multiple perspectives and introduced a new field of interdisciplinary research, the study of social (socio-cultural) aspects of the natural world, or what we call the social life of sea ice. It incorporates local terminologies and classifications, place names, personal stories, teachings, safety rules, historic narratives, and explanations of the empirical and spiritual connections that people create with the natural world. In opening the social life of sea ice and the value of indigenous perspectives we make a novel contribution to IPY, to science, and to the public
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Innehållsförteckning

SIKU: International Polar Year Project #166 (An Overview).- SIKU: International Polar Year Project #166 (An Overview).- Recording the Knowledge: Inuit Observations of Ice, Climate and Change.- Weather Variability and Changing Sea Ice Use in Qeqertaq, West Greenland, 19872008.- Mapping Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge, Use, and Change in Nunavut, Canada (Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung).- Its Cold, but Not Cold Enough: Observing Ice and Climate Change in Gambell, Alaska, in IPY 20072008 and Beyond.- Sea Ice Distribution and Ice Use by Indigenous Walrus Hunters on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.- Sila-Inuk: Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in Greenland.- Using the Ice: Indigenous Knowledge and Modern Technologies.- The Sea, the Land, the Coast, and the Winds: Understanding Inuit Sea Ice Use in Context.- The Igliniit Project: Combining Inuit Knowledge and Geomatics Engineering to Develop a New Observation Tool for Hunters.- Assessing the Shorefast Ice: Iupiat Whaling Trails off Barrow, Alaska.- Creating an Online Cybercartographic Atlas of Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use.- Learning, Knowing, and Preserving the Knowledge.- The Power of Multiple Perspectives: Behind the Scenes of the SikuInuitHila Project.- Knowings About Sigu: Kigiqtaamiut Hunting as an Experiential Pedagogy.- The Ice Is Always Changing: Yupik Understandings of Sea Ice, Past and Present.- Qanuq Ilitaavut: How We Learned What We Know (Wales Inupiaq Sea Ice Dictionary).- SIKU and Siku: Opening New Perspectives.- Indigenous Knowledge and Sea Ice Science: What Can We Learn from Indigenous Ice Users?.- Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax.- Inuit Sea Ice Terminology in Nunavut andNunatsiavut.- Two Greenlandic Sea Ice Lists and Some Considerations Regarding Inuit Sea Ice Terms.- Partnerships in Policy: What Lessons Can We Learn from IPY SIKU?.- Epilogue: The Humanism of Sea Ice.