Cetaceousness and global warming among the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska

• Main Author: Sakakibara, Chie
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Oklahoma 2007
• Subjects: Geography|Native American studies; Arctic; Point Hope; Barrow; bowhead whale; Climate change; Global warming; Alaska
• Online Access: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3291250

Based on my 2004-2007 ethnographic fieldwork in Barrow and Point Hope, Alaska, this dissertation reveals how collective uncertainty about the environmental future is expressed and managed in Iñupiaq practices, and by extension, how deeply global warming penetrates the cultural core of their society....