SIKU: Knowing Our Ice Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Krupnik, Igor (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Aporta, Claudio (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gearheard, Shari (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Laidler, Gita J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kielsen Holm, Lene (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Geography.; Climate change.; Anthropology.; Linguistic anthropology.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Human Geography.; Climate Change.; Geography, general.; Linguistic Anthropology.

By exploring indigenous people’s 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....

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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, 1987–2008
• Mapping Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge, Use, and Change in Nunavut, Canada (Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung)
• “It’s Cold, but Not Cold Enough”: Observing Ice and Climate Change in Gambell, Alaska, in IPY 2007–2008 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: Iñupiat 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 Siku–Inuit–Hila Project
• Knowings About Sigu: Kigiqtaamiut Hunting as an Experiential Pedagogy
• The Ice Is Always Changing: Yup’ik 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 and Nunatsiavut
• 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.