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

By exploring indigenous peoples 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....

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Krupnik, Igor. (Editor), Aporta, Claudio. (Editor), Gearheard, Shari. (Editor), Laidler, Gita J. (Editor), Kielsen Holm, Lene. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Geography.
Anthropological linguistics.
Climatic changes.
Anthropology.
Human Geography.
Social Sciences.
Climate Change.
Geography (general).
Linguistic Anthropology.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8587-0
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505 0 # |a Preface -- Foreword -- Volume Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Overview -- Part 1 - RECORDING THE KNOWLEDGE: -- Part 2 - USING THE ICE: -- Part 3 LEARNING, KNOWING, AND PRESERVING THE KNOWLEDGE -- Part 4 SIKU and Siku: OPENING NEW PERSPECTIVES .-EPILOGUE: The Humanism of Sea Ice -- Appendix 1. Nunavimmiut Sea Ice Terminology -- Appendix 2. List of the SIKU-generated publications and science presentations, 2006 2010 -- Index. 
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