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Etudes/Inuit/Studies
Volume 34, Number 2, 2010June 2011 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC
Volume 64, Number 2
Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)Northern Notes Spring/Summer 2011 Newsletter Available Online
International Arctic Social Sciences Association
- Etudes/Inuit/Studies
Volume 34, Number 2, 2010
"Etudes/Inuit/Studies" is a biannual scholarly journal that has been
published since 1977. The journal is devoted to the study of Inuit
societies, either traditional or contemporary, in the general
perspective of social sciences and humanities (ethnology, politics,
archaeology, linguistics, history, etc.). In addition to a number of
articles each volume contains book reviews, a list of scientific events,
and annual reviews of recent theses and articles published in other
journals.
A full list of contents in the most recent volume "The Inuit and Climate
Change," is now available at:
http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/etudes-inuit-studies. A partial list of content
follows.
Articles
- Creative technologies: Experimentation and social practice in
arctic societies, by Nancy Wachowich (pages 13-19)
- Aleut baseball: Cultural creation and innovation through a
sporting event, by Medeia Csoba DeHass and Andreas Droulias (pages
21-37)
- Body techniques of health: Making products and shaping selves in
northwest Alaska, by Amber Lincoln (pages 39-59)
- Starting fire with gunpowder, revisited: Inuktitut New Media
content creation, by Timothy J. Pasch (pages 61-80)
- Uploading selves: Inuit digital storytelling on YouTube, by Nancy
Wachowich and Willow Scobie (pages 81-105)
- Who's afraid of Kaassassuk? Writing as a tool in coping with
changing cosmology, by Birgitte Sonne (pages 107-127)
Research Note
- The Inuit presence at the first Canadian Truth and Reconciliation
Commission national event, by Marie-Pierre Gadoua (pages 167-184)
Also included in this issue are additional articles, book reviews, a
survey of dissertations, scientific information, and two items in
memoriam.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/etudes-inuit-studies.
- June 2011 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC
Volume 64, Number 2
Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)
The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the June 2011 issue of the journal ARCTIC, Volume 64, Number 2. A
non-profit membership organization and multidisciplinary research
institute of the University of Calgary, AINA's mandate is to advance the
study of the North American and circumpolar Arctic through the natural
and social sciences as well as the arts and humanities; and to acquire,
preserve, and disseminate information on physical, environmental, and
social conditions in the North. Created as a binational corporation in
1945, the Institute's United States Corporation is housed at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks.
For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
please visit the Institute's website at: http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.
The following papers appear in the June 2011 issue of ARCTIC:
- The Ecology of Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) in Canadian Arctic
Lakes, by David C. Hardie and Jeffrey A. Hutchings
- Paleoeskimo Demography and Holocene Sea-level History, Gulf of
Boothia, Arctic Canada, by Arthur S. Dyke, James M. Savelle, and
Donald S. Johnson
- Connections between River Runoff and Limnological Conditions in
Adjacent High Arctic Lakes: Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut,
by Kailey Amanda Stewart and Scott Fraser Lamoureux
- Ancient Subalpine Clonal Spruces (Picea abies): Sources of
Postglacial Vegetation History in the Swedish Scandes, by Lisa Oberg
and Leif Kullman
- Molting, Staging, and Wintering Locations of Common Eiders
Breeding in the Gyrfalcon Archipelgao, Ungava Bay, by Jean-Pierre L.
Savard, Louis Lesage, Scott G. Gilliland, H. Grant Gilchrist, and
Jean-Francois Giroux
- Economic Strategies, Community, and Food Networks in Ulukhaktok,
Northwest Territories, Canada, by Peter Collings
- Reduction of Garbage in the Diet of Nonbreeding Glaucous Gulls
Corresponding to a Change in Waste Management, by Emily L. Weiser
and Abby N. Powell
- Resonance Strategies of Sami Reindeer Herders in Northernmost
Finland during Climatically Extreme Years, by T. Vuojala-Magga, M.
Turunen, T. Ryyppo, and M. Tennberg
- Perception of the Importance of Traditional Country Foods to the
Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health of Labrador Inuit, by Erica
L. Pufall, Andria Q. Jones, Scott A. McEwen, Charlene Lyall, Andrew
S. Peregrine, and Victoria L. Edge
The June 2011 issue also contains six book reviews, an obituary for
Ernest S. (Tiger) Burch, Jr., by Kenneth L. Pratt, and an essay by Emma
Stewart and Jackie Dawson discussing the implications of the grounding
of the Clipper Adventurer in the Northwest Passage during the summer of
2010 for cruise ship tourism in Arctic Canada.
For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
please visit the Institute's website at: http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.
- Northern Notes Spring/Summer 2011 Newsletter Available Online
International Arctic Social Sciences Association
The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)
Spring/Summer 2011 issue of the Northern Notes newsletter is now
available. The newsletter is available to be downloaded from the IASSA
website: http://www.iassa.org/.
A list of articles featured in this issue follows.
- International Polar Decade (IPD) Workshop Held in St. Petersburg
- IASSA: As Academics What is Our Role in Society and Do We Have a
Responsibility to Engage?
- Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA)--A
New International Research Project
- The 2011 Scott Polar History Colloquium: Issues of Historical
Practice in the Polar Regions
Also included are letters from the IASSA Council and Secretariat, the
preliminary schedule of sessions for ICASS VII, Candidates for IASSA
Council 2011-2014, IASSA Secretariat Bids 2011-2014, and various news
items regarding available resources and upcoming conferences.
For further information about IASSA or to download the newsletter,
please go to: http://www.iassa.org/.