By Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Gita J. Laidler, Lene Kielsen Holm
By exploring indigenous people’s wisdom and use of sea ice, the SIKU venture has established the facility of a number of views and brought a brand new box of interdisciplinary examine, the learn of social (socio-cultural) points of the wildlife, or what we name the social lifetime of sea ice. It contains neighborhood terminologies and classifications, position names, own tales, teachings, defense principles, old narratives, and motives of the empirical and religious connections that individuals create with the wildlife. In beginning the social lifetime of sea ice and the price of indigenous views we make a singular contribution to IPY, to technology, and to the public
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Boas’ Inuktitut terms for snow on the ground compared to historical and modern Inuit vocabularies . . . . . . xxxi . . 126 . . 126 . . 130 . . 131 . . 135 . . 149 . . 152 . . 186 . . 192 . . 261 . . 323 . . . . . . 335 337 340 . . 343 . . 386 . . 389 . . 392 Chapter 1 SIKU: International Polar Year Project #166 (An Overview) Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, and Gita J. Laidler Natural sciences should no longer dictate the Earth system research agenda; social sciences will be at least as important in its next phase (Reid, Bréchignac, and Lee in Science 2009, 2451 ) Abstract The SIKU (Sea Ice Knowledge and Use) project emerged in response to the growing public and scholarly attention to the environmental knowledge of the Arctic residents, as well as to the rising concerns about the impact of climate change on Arctic environment and polar sea ice.
Spring–early summer observational indicators used by Gambell hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . Average monthly air temperature (Fº) during spring season (April–June) Gambell, Alaska: 1899–2009 . . . . . Weather statistics for the spring season at Savoonga, 1993–2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weather statistics for the spring season at Gambell, 1992–2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walrus harvested in relation to wind direction in spring for Savoonga, 1993–2008 .
Walrus harvested in relation to wind speed in spring for Savoonga, 1993–2008 . . . . . . . . . . Walrus harvested in relation to wind speed in spring for Gambell, 1992–2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . 57 . . 60 . . 63 . . 84 . . 90 . . 94 . . 99 . . 102 . . 107 . . 124 . . 125 . . 125 . . 125 . . 126 . . 3 Walrus harvested in relation to visibility in spring for Savoonga, 1993–2008 . . . . . . . . . . Walrus harvested in relation to visibility in spring for Gambell, 1992–2008 .