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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.

Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions. --- Ethnobiology -- Arctic regions. --- Ethnoscience -- Arctic regions. --- Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Arctic regions. --- Human ecology -- Arctic regions. --- International Polar Year, 2007-2008. --- Natural history -- Arctic regions. --- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Arctic regions. --- Research -- Arctic regions. --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Nature --- Human beings --- Ethnoscience --- Inuit --- Sea ice --- Climatic changes --- Research --- International Polar Year, 2007-2008 --- Human ecology --- Ethnobiology --- Sociology & Social History --- Anthropology --- Social Change --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Effect of human beings on --- Effect of environment on --- Ice --- Sea ice. --- Human ecology. --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Indigenous ecological knowledge --- Indigenous environmental knowledge --- T.E.K. (Traditional ecological knowledge) --- TEK (Traditional ecological knowledge) --- Traditional environmental knowledge --- Ice, Polar --- Polar ice --- Social aspects --- Social sciences. --- Geography. --- Climate change. --- Anthropology. --- Linguistic anthropology. --- Human geography. --- Social Sciences. --- Human Geography. --- Climate Change. --- Geography, general. --- Linguistic Anthropology. --- Ice navigation --- Oceanography --- Icebergs --- Experiential learning --- Biopiracy --- Indigenous peoples --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Climatic changes. --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Geography --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental aspects --- SIKU Project. --- Arctic regions --- Research. --- Environmental conditions. --- Sea Ice Knowledge and Use Project --- Arctic --- Arctic Ocean Region --- Arctic, The --- Far North --- The Arctic --- Polar regions --- Global environmental change --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences