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

• 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

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....

Table of Contents:

• 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, 20062010
• Index.