'How many Eskimo words for ice?' Collecting Inuit sea ice terminologies in the International Polar Year 2007-2008

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-68

  Krupnik, Igor ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

human geography; Indigenous knowledge; International Polar Year; Inuit; sea ice

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; DATABASE; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC; CHUKCHI; GREENLAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 79953290706     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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