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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Foreword; Preface; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 SIKU: International Polar Year Project #166 (An Overview); The Message of the Sea Ice; Indigenous Knowledge; The Origins of the SIKUISIUOP Project (IPY 166): 2004 -- 2005; Overview of SIKU Activities: 2006 -- 2009; Outcomes and Messages of the SIKU Project; SIKU Legacies; The Structure of the Volume; Notes; References; Part I Recording the Knowledge: Inuit Observations of Ice, Climate and Change; 2 Weather Variability and Changing Sea Ice Use in Qeqertaq, West Greenland, 1987 -- 2008 |
| Summary |
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. 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 valu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
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Ethnoscience -- Arctic regions
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Research -- Arctic regions
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International Polar Year, 2007-2008.
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Human ecology -- Arctic regions
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Ethnobiology -- Arctic regions
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Arctic regions
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Arctic regions
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NATURE -- Essays.
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NATURE -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
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Ecology
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Ethnobiology
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Ethnoscience
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on
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Human ecology
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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Research
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Arctic regions -- Research. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006962
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Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
Arctic Regions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Krupnik, Igor
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| LC no. |
2010920470 |
| ISBN |
9789048185870 |
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9048185874 |
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