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| Igor
Krupnik
Igor Krupnik
National Museum of Natural History, Arctic Studies Center
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Igor Krupnik is
cultural anthropologist and Curator of circumpolar ethnology
at the Arctic Studies Center, Department of Anthropology, National
Museum of Natural History. He has done extensive fieldwork in
Alaska, the Bering Sea region, and along the Russian Arctic
coast. He is currently coordinator of several projects studying
the impacts of climate change, preservation of cultural heritage,
and ecological knowledge of Arctic indigenous people. Krupnik
has published several books and collections, including two recent
volumes on indigenous observations of Arctic environmental change,
The Earth Is Faster Now (2002) and Watching Ice
and Weather Our Way (2004). He was the lead curator for
the recent Smithsonian exhibit, Arctic: A Friend Acting
Strangely. He is a member of the Joint Committee for the
International Polar Year 2007-2008 and was instrumental in bringing
socio-cultural issues, ecological knowledge, and environmental
observations of northern indigenous people to the agenda of
IPY 2007-2008. |
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