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

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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 Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi SIKU: International Polar Year Project #166 (An Overview)....Pages 1-28 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Weather Variability and Changing Sea Ice Use in Qeqertaq, West Greenland, 1987–2008....Pages 31-44 Mapping Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge, Use, and Change in Nunavut, Canada (Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung)....Pages 45-80 “It’s Cold, but Not Cold Enough”: Observing Ice and Climate Change in Gambell, Alaska, in IPY 2007–2008 and Beyond....Pages 81-114 Sea Ice Distribution and Ice Use by Indigenous Walrus Hunters on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska....Pages 115-144 Sila-Inuk: Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in Greenland....Pages 145-160 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 The Sea, the Land, the Coast, and the Winds: Understanding Inuit Sea Ice Use in Context....Pages 163-180 The Igliniit Project: Combining Inuit Knowledge and Geomatics Engineering to Develop a New Observation Tool for Hunters....Pages 181-202 Assessing the Shorefast Ice: Iñupiat Whaling Trails off Barrow, Alaska....Pages 203-228 Creating an Online Cybercartographic Atlas of Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use....Pages 229-254 Front Matter....Pages 255-255 The Power of Multiple Perspectives: Behind the Scenes of the Siku–Inuit–Hila Project....Pages 257-274 Knowings About Sigu: Kigiqtaamiut Hunting as an Experiential Pedagogy....Pages 275-294 The Ice Is Always Changing: Yup’ik Understandings of Sea Ice, Past and Present....Pages 295-320 Qanuq Ilitaavut: “How We Learned What We Know” (Wales Inupiaq Sea Ice Dictionary)....Pages 321-354 Front Matter....Pages 355-355 Indigenous Knowledge and Sea Ice Science: What Can We Learn from Indigenous Ice Users?....Pages 357-376 Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the “Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax”....Pages 377-400 Inuit Sea Ice Terminology in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut....Pages 401-412 Two Greenlandic Sea Ice Lists and Some Considerations Regarding Inuit Sea Ice Terms....Pages 413-426 Partnerships in Policy: What Lessons Can We Learn from IPY SIKU?....Pages 427-444 Epilogue: The Humanism of Sea Ice....Pages 445-452 Back Matter....Pages 453-501