SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use / Edition 1

by Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Gita J. Laidler, Lene Kielsen Holm

Overview

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 value of indigenous perspectives we make a novel contribution to IPY, to science, and to the public

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048186488
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	07/21/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	501
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

1 SIKU: International Polar Year Project #166 (An Overview) Igor Krupnik Claudio Aporta Gita J. Laidler 1

Part I Recording the Knowledge: Inuit Observations of Ice, Climate and Change

2 Weather Variability and Changing Sea Ice Use in Qequertaq, West Greenland, 1987-2008 Pierre Taverniers 31

3 Mapping Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge, Use, and Change in Nunavut, Canada (Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung) Gita J. Laidler Pootoogoo Elee Theo Ikummaq Eric Joamie Claudio Aporta 45

4 "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. Paul Apangalook 81

5 Sea Ice Distribution and Ice Use by Indigenous Walrus Hunters on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska Marie-Luise Kapsch Hajo Eicken Martin Robards 115

6 Sila-Inuk: Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in Greenland Lene Kielsen Holm 145

Part II Using the Ice: Indigenous Knowledge and Modern Technologies

7 The Sea, the Land, the Coast, and the Winds: Understanding Inuit Sea Ice Use in Context Claudio Aporta 163

8 The Igliniit Project: Combining Inuit Knowledge and Geomatics Engineering to Develop a New Observation Tool for Hunters Shari Gearheard Gary Aipellee Kyle O'Keefe 181

9 Assessing the Shorefast Ice: Inñupiat Whaling Trails off Barrow, Alaska Matthew L. Druckenmiler Hajo Eicken John C. George Lewis Brower 203

10 Creating an Online Cybercartographic Atlas of Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use Peter L. Pulsifer Gita J. Laidler D. R. Fraser Taylor Amos Hayes 229

Part III Learning, Knowing, and Preserving the Knowledge

11 The Power of Multiple Perspectives: Behind the Scenes of the Siku-Inuit-Hila Project Henry P. Huntington Shari Gearheard Lene Kielsen Holm 257

12 Knowings about Sigu: Kigiqtaamiut Hunting as an Experiential Pedagogy Josh Wisniewski 275

13 The Ice Is Always Changing: Yup'ik Understandings of Sea Ice, Past and Present Ann Fienup-Riordan Alice Rearden 295

14 Qanuq Ilitaavut: "How We Learned What We Know" (Wales Inupiaq Sea Ice Dictionary) Igor Krupnik Winton (Utuktaaq) Weyapuk Jr. 321

Part 4 SIKU and Siku: Opening New Perspectives

15 Indigenous Knowledge and Sea Ice Science: What Can We Learn from Indigenous Ice Users" Hajo Eicken 357

16 Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax" Igor Krupnik Ludger Müller-Wille 377

17 Inuit Sea Ice Terminology in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut Alana Johns 401

18 Two Greenlandic Sea Ice Lists and Some Considerations Regarding Inuit Sea Ice Terms Nicole Tersis Pierre Taverniers 413

19 Partnerships in Policy: What Lessons Can We Learn from IPY SIKU" Anne Henshaw 427

20 Epilogue: The Humanism of Sea Ice Michael T. Bravo 445

Appendix A 453

Appendix B 464

Color Plates 471

Index 479