Krupnik, Igor
Chair of Anthropology and Curator of Circumpolar Ethnology
Arctic ethnology, indigenous knowledge, social systems, modern cultures; Arctic environment and climate change; cultural heritage and heritage preservation; history of Arctic/North Pacific ethnological research
Positions
- Curator, Arctic and Northern Ethnology, National Museum of Natural History 2005 -
Geographic Focus
- North America Continent
- United States Country
- World, North America, South America, Arctic Transnational Region
Background And Education
Education And Training
- M.A., University of Moscow
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, Institute of Ethnography 1973 - 1977
Professional Biography
- Igor Krupnik received his Ph.D. in anthropology/cultural ecology at the Institute of Ethnography in Moscow, Russia (1977) and has been active in Arctic socio-cultural and heritage research since the 1970s. He currently works as Curator of Arctic and Northern ethnology collections at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. He has conducted fieldwork in local communities in the Russian Arctic and in Alaska, especially in the Northern Bering-Sea-Bering Strait region. His main fields of interest include socio-cultural systems of northern indigenous people, community adaptation to rapid change, environmental knowledge, and heritage/knowledge preservation,
Awards And Honors
- Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar Award, 2019
- Secretary's Research Prize, 2015
- Life Membership Award, conferred by International Arctic Social Sciences Association, 2014
- IASC Medal (International Arctic Science Committee) , conferred by International Arctic Research Center , 2012
Public Biography
- Igor Krupnik joined the Smithsonian NMNH' Arctic Studies Center in 1991, after teaching at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and working for 14 years at the Institute of Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he was appointed NMNH curator of Arctic and northern ethnology collections in 2005. In 1992-2002, he co-chaired (with William Fitzhugh) the "Jesup-2" international program dedicated to the centennial of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902. In 2004-2010, he served as a member of the Joint Committee for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 and as lead editor of its main report volume, "Understanding Earth Polar Challenges" (2011). He was among the founding members of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association and served on its Council in 1990-1995 and in 2004-2008.
Research And Grants
Investigator On
- Arctic Crashes: Human, Climate, and Habitat Agency in the Anthropocene 2014 - 2015
- Emerging Themes in Native North American Research: Planning the Smithsonian Agenda for the 21st Century awarded by Grand Challenges I
- Inuit/Arctic/Connections: Learning from the Top of the World (18th Inuit Studies Conference, October 2012) awarded by National Science Foundation
- Sea Ice We Want Our Children to Know awarded by U.S. Department of the Interior
Keywords
- Arctic, North America, indigenous people, socio-cultural systems, heritage, traditional knowledge, modernization, northern ethnological collections, history of anthropological research
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Huntington, Henry P., Krupnik, Igor, and Ikuta, Hiroko. 2023. "George Noongwook (1949-2023)." Arctic, 76, (2) 239–242. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic77823. 2023
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Krupnik, Igor I., and Oparin, Dmitri. 2022. "Ainana: from "Ethnographers' Friend" to Partner to National Symbol." Etnografia, 3, (17) 220–246. https://doi.org/10.31250/2618-8600-2022-3(17)-220-246. 2022
- Krupnik, Igor. 2022. "Faces We Remember: Assessing Visual Memory Depth among the Yupik of Chukotka and St. Lawrence Island." Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 45, (1-2) 63–91. https://doi.org/10.7202/1090311ar. 2022
- Krupnik, Igor. 2021. "Competing Arctic Paths: Cohort Assessment of the Fifth Thule Expedition Legacy." Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 19, (1-2) 91–106. 2021
- Harper, Kenn and Krupnik, Igor. 2021. "From Greenland to the Pacific: Introduction to the Fifth Thule Expedition Centennial, 1921-1924." Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 19, (1-2) 6–22. 2021
- Krupnik, Igor and Schultz, Martin. 2020. "Dispersal and Reunion: The Saga of the "Vega" Expedition Chukchi Collection, 1878-2000." Archiv Weltmuseum Wien, 69 106–137. 2020
- Krupnik, Igor. 2020. "Michael Krauss, 1934-2019: Linguist, Humanist, and a Pioneer for Better World." Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 43, (1-2) 331–335. https://doi.org/10.7202/1071951ar. 2020
- Gredig, Florian, Krupnik, Igor, and Schultz, Martin. 2019. "Arctic Riches Revealed in Swiss Museum Ethnographic Collections." Kunst & Kontext, 17 23–33. 2019
- Krupnik, Igor. 2019. "From Greenland to the Pacific: New International Program for the Centennial of the 5th Thule Expedition, 1921-1924." Arkheologiia Arktiki (Arctic Archaeology), in Russian, 6 178–188. 2019
- Krupnik, Igor. 2019. "In Search of Changing Tradition (Making of the First Volume of the Handbook of North American Indians Series)." Etnografia (in Russian), 3, (5) 193–212. https://doi.org/10.31250/2618-8600-2019-3(5)-193-212. 2019
- Krupnik, Igor. 2018. "'Arctic Crashes:' Revisiting the Human-Animal Disequilibrium Model in a Time of Rapid Change." Human Ecology, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-9990-1. 2018
- Krupnik, Igor. 2018. "Sea Ice as Aboriginal Cultural Scape (in Russian)." Heritage and Modernity (Nasledie i Sovremennost'), 1, (4 (December)) 73–94. 2018
- Krupnik, Igor. 2017. "Siberian Yupik Names for Birds: What Can Bird Names Tell Us about Language and Knowledge Transitions?" Études Inuit. Inuit Studies, 41, (1-2) 179. https://doi.org/10.7202/1061438ar. 2017
- Ray, G. C., Hufford, Gary L., Overland, James E., Krupnik, Igor, McCormick-Ray, Jerry, Frey, Karen, and Labunski, Elizabeth. 2016. "Decadal Bering Sea seascape change: consequences for Pacific walruses and indigenous hunters." Ecological Applications, 26, (1) 24–41. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0430. 2016
- Eicken, Hajo, Kaufman, Mette, Krupnik, Igor, Pulsifer, Peter, Apangalook, Leonard, Apangalook, Paul, Weyapuk, Winton, and Leavitt, Joe. 2014. "A framework and database for community sea ice observations in a changing Arctic: an Alaskan prototype for multiple users." Polar Geography, 37, (1) 5–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2013.873090. 2014
- Krupnik, Igor, Bogoslovskaya, L. S., Vdovin, B. I., Golbtseva, V. V., Kalyuzhina, N. I., and Nuvano, V. I. 2014. "Project SIKU in Eastern Chukotka, 2007-2013: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in the Era of Global Change." Ecological Planning and Management, 2, (15) 72–88. 2014
- Krupnik, Igor. 2014. "Sergei Bogojavlensky and his legacy in Alaska Sociocultural Research." Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 12, (1) 25–52. 2014
- Krupnik, Igor and Pratt, Kenneth L. 2012. "Introduction: In the Footsteps of a Giant." Arctic Anthropology, 49, (2) 5–9. https://doi.org/10.1353/arc.2012.0032. 2012
- Krupnik, Igor and Stern, Richard O. 2012. "Remembering Ernest S. "Tiger" Burch, Jr., 17 April 1938 to 16 September 2010." Ethnology, 59, (1) 163–169. 2012
- Krupnik, Igor. 2012. "The 50-Year arctic career of Ernest S. Burch, Jr.: A personal ethnohistory, 1960–2010." Arctic anthropology, 49, (2) 10–28. 2012
- Krupnik, Igor. 2011. "'How many Eskimo words for ice?' Collecting Inuit sea ice terminologies in the International Polar Year 2007-2008." Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien, 55, (1) 56–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00345.x. 2011
- Fitzhugh, William W., Krupnik, Igor, and Muller-Wille, Ludger. 2010. "Laying the Groundwork for Arctic Social Science 1985-1990." Northern Notes: Newsletter of the Arctic Social Science Association, 18–20. 2010
- Krupnik, Igor. 2009. ""The Ice We Want Our Children to Know": SIKU Project in Alaska and Siberia." Alaska Park Science, 8, (2) 122–127. 2009
- Ray, G. Carleton, Hufford, Gary L., Krupnik, Igor, and Overland, James E. 2008. "Diminishing sea ice." Science, 321, (5895) 1443–1444. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.321.5895.1443c. 2008
- Krupnik, Igor. 2008. "Socio-Cultural field in IPY 2007-2008: History, Structure, Major Topics (in Russian)." Ekologicheskoe planirovanie i upravlenie (Ecological Planning and Management), 3-4, (8-9) 6–22. 2008
- Krupnik, Igor and Chlenov, Mikhail. 2008. "The end of "Eskimo Land": Yupik relocations in Chukotka, 1958-1959." Études Inuit. Inuit Studies, 31, (1-2) 59–81. 2008
- Krupnik, Igor and Bogoslovskaya, L. S. 2007. "Arctic people and climate change: SIKU project in Beringia (in Russian)." Ecological Planning and Management, 4, (5) 77–84. 2007
- Krupnik, Igor and Ray, G. Carleton. 2007. "Pacific walruses, indigenous hunters, and climate change: Bridging scientific and indigenous knowledge." Deep-Sea Research. Part II, Topical Studies in Oceanography, 54, (23-26) 2946–2957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.08.011. 2007
- Krupnik, Igor. 2007. "Progress Report on International Polar Year 2007–2008: How Are We Doing?" Northern Notes (Newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association), 4-9. 2007
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Book
- Bogoslovskaia, Liudmila Sergeevna, Slugin, Ivan V., Zagrebin, Igor, Krupnik, Igor, Bell, Marina, and Mason, Rachel. 2016. Maritime Hunting Culture of Chukotka: Traditions and Modern Practices. Anchorage: National Park Service, Shared Beringian Heritage Program. 2016
- Krupnik, Igor. 2016. Those Who Face the Sea: In Memory of Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya (in Russian). Moscow: August Borg. 2016
- Krupnik, Igor and Chlenov, Michael A. 2013. Yupik transitions: change and survival at Bering Strait, 1900-1960. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2013
- Weyapuk, Winton and Krupnik, Igor. 2012. Kinikmi Sigum Qanuq Ilitaavut, Wales Inupiaq Sea Ice Dictionary. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center. 2012
- Allison, Ian, Béland, Michel, Alverson, Keith, Bell, Robin, Carlson, David, Cutler, Paul, Danell, Kjell, Ellis-Evans, Cynan, Fahrback, Eberhard, Hovelsrud, Grete, Huber, Johannes, Kotlyakov, Vladimir, Krupnik, Igor, Lopez-Martinez, Jerónimo, Tillmann, Mohr, Odmark, Helena, Qin, Dahe, Volker, Rachold, Rapley, Chris, Odd, Rogne, Sarukhanian, Eduard, Summerhayes, Colin, and Yamanouchi, Takashi. 2009. The state of polar research: A statement from the International Council for Science/World Meteorological Organization Joint Committee for the International Polar Year 2007-2008. World Meteorological Organization. 2009
- Bogoslovskaya, L. S., Slugin, I., Zagrebin, I., and Krupnik, Igor. 2007. Osnovy morskogo zveroboinogo promysla [Marine Mammal Hunting: Scientific and Practical Handbook]. Moscow: Russian Institute of Cultural Heritage. 2007
- Allison, Ian, Beland, Michel, Alverson, Keith, Bell, Robin, Carlson, David, Danell, Kjell, Ellis-Evans, Cynan, Fahrbach, Eberhard, Fanta, Edith, Fujii, Yoshiyuki, Glaser, Gisbert, Goldfarb, Leah, Hovelsrud, Grete, Huber, Johannes, Kotlyakov, Vladimir, Krupnik, Igor, Lopez-Martinez, Jeronimo, Mohr, Tillmann, Qin, Dahe, Rachold, Volker, Rapley, Chris, Rogne, Odd, Sarukhanian, Eduard, Summerhayes, Colin, and Xiao, Cunde. 2007. The Scope of Science for the International Polar Year 2007–2008. WMO/TD 1364. Geneva: World Meteorological Organization. 2007
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Chapter
- Krupnik, Igor I. 2022. "Antecedents of the Smithsonian Handbook Project: 1800-1965." In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction. Krupnik, Igor I., editor. 10–30. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Handbook of North American Indians, 1. (https://doi.org/10.5479/si.21262173), https://doi.org/10.5479/si.9781944466541.1.10. 2022
- Scherer, Joanna Cohan and Krupnik, Igor. 2022. "Appendix 1, Timeline." In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1, Introduction. Krupnik, Igor, editor. 595–609. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2022
- Krupnik, Igor I. 2022. "Introduction: A Gateway to the Handbook Series." In Handbook of North American Indians Volume 1: Introduction. Krupnik, Igor I., editor. 1–9. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Handbook of North American Indians, 1. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.9781944466541.1.1. 2022
- Redsteer, Margaret Hiza, Krupnik, Igor I., and Maldonado, Julie Koppel. 2022. "Native American Communities and Climate Change." In Handbook of North American Indians, Introduction. Krupnik, Igor I., editor. 247–264. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Handbook of North American Indians, 1. 2022
- Krupnik, Igor. 2022. "Preface." In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1, Introduction. Krupnik, Igor, editor. xi–xv. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2022
- Link, Adrianna and Krupnik, Igor I. 2022. "The Beginnings, 1965-1971." In Handbook of North American Indians, Introduction. Krupnik, Igor I., editor. 500–515. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Handbook of North American Indians, 1. 2022
- Krupnik, Igor. 2020. "Pacific Walrus, People, and Sea Ice: Relations ar Subpopulation Scale, 1825-2015." In Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North. Krupnik, Igor and Crowell, Aron L., editors. 351–374. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2020
- Krupnik, Igor. 2020. "Studying "Arctic Crashes": Human-Animal Relations in a Time of Rapid Change." In Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North. Krupnik, Igor and Crowell, Aron L., editors. 3–21. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2020
- Krupnik, Igor. 2019. "At the Frontline or Very Close Living with Climate Change on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, 1999–2017." In Climate and Culture: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on a Warming World. Feola, Giuseppe, Geoghegan, Hilary, and Arnall, Alex, editors. 168–189. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108505284) 2019
- Krupnik, Igor, Rubis, Jennifer, and Nakashima, Douglas. 2018. "Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation: Epilogue." In Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation. Nakashima, Douglas, Krupnik, Igor, and Rubis, Jennifer, editors. 280–290. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press and UNESCO Publishing. In Local and Indigenous Knowledge - UNESCO, 2. (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316481066), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316481066.021. 2018
- Krupnik, Igor and Bogoslovskaya, Lyudmila S. 2017. ""Our Ice, Snow and Winds": From Knowledge Integration to Co-Production in the Russian SIKU Project, 2007-2013." In Oral History meets Linguistics. Kasten, Erich, Roller, Katja, and Wilbur, Joshua, editors. 31–48. Furstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien. 2017
- Krupnik, Igor. 2017. "Arctic/Siberian/Sakha Collections at the Smithsonian Institution." In Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Ivanova, Zinaida, editor. 404–421. Yakutsk. 2017
- Krupnik, Igor. 2017. "How We Practiced History and Ethnology: To the 35th Anniversary of the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Commission, 1981–1990." In Soviet Judaica: History, Topics, and Personalities. Kupovetsky, Mark, editor. 286–360. Moscow: Mosty kul'tury. 2017
- Krupnik, Igor. 2017. "Living on a Changing Planet: Why Indigenous Voices Matter." In Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans. Kress, W. John and Stine, Jeffrey K., editors. 78–82. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2017
- Bogoslovskaya, Lyudmila and Krupnik, Igor. 2017. "The Changing Cultural Scapes of Sea Mammal Hunters of the Bering Strait Area: 1970s-2000s." In In the Heritage Focus (V Fokuse naslediia) - in Russian. Kuleshova, Marina E., editor. 359–381. Moscow: Institute of Geography. 2017
- Krupnik, Igor. 2017. "The Culture Will Protect the Nature: Along the Trails of Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya." In Those Who Face the Sea: In Memory of Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya (in Russian). Krupnik, Igor, editor. 11–36. Moscow: August Borg. 2017
- Krupnik, Igor. 2017. "Waldemar Bogoras and The Chukchee: A Maestro and a Classical Ethnography." In The Chukchee. Bogoras, Waldemar, Duerr, Michael, and Kasten, Erich, editors. 9–45. Kulturstiftung Sibirien. 2017
- Krupnik, Igor and Chlenov, Michael. 2016. "A "New Land": History of the formation of the Uwellkal Yupik Eskimo Community." In Those Who Face the Sea: In Memory of Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya (in Russian). Krupnik, Igor, editor. 396–421. Moscow: August Borg. 2016
- Krupnik, Igor. 2016. "Closing the (Arctic) Circle: Ernest S. Burch and the "Peoples of the Arctic" Map." In Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s. Krupnik, Igor, editor. 374–409. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2016
- Krupnik, Igor. 2016. "Editor's Preface." In Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s. Krupnik, Igor, editor. xv–xviii. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2016
- Krupnik, Igor. 2016. "From Boas to Burch: Eskimology Transitions." In Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s. Krupnik, Igor, editor. 1–32. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2016
- Chlenov, Michael and Krupnik, Igor. 2016. "Naukan: Chapters to Community History (in Russian)." In Saveguard and Ensure: Cultural Heritage of Chukotka: Prospects in Protection and Conservation (in Russian). Bronshtein, Mikhail, editor. 38–73. Moscow: Museum of Oriental Arts. 2016
- Krupnik, Igor. 2016. "On Birds, People, and Indigenous Knowledge (in Russian)." In Those Who Face the Sea: In Memory of Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya (in Russian). Krupnik, Igor, editor. 120–149. Moscow: August Borg. 2016
- Krupnik, Igor. 2016. "One Field Season and 50-Year Career: Franz Boas and Early Eskimology." In Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s. Krupnik, Igor, editor. 73–83. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2016
- Ray, G. C., Hufford, Gary L., Loughlin, Thomas R., and Krupnik, Igor. 2014. "Bering Sea seals and walruses: responses to environmental change." In Marine conservation science, policy and management. 1st ed. 171–198. 2014
- Krupnik, Igor and Alpyrgin, Bogoslovskaya L. 2013. "Naukanski Sea Ice Dictionary: Reconstructing a Cultural Ice-Scape (in Russian)." In Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Proceedings of the Institute of Linguistic Studies. Vakhtin, N. and Perekhvalskaya, E., editors. 166–188. St. Petersburg: Institute of Linguistic Studies. 2013
- Chlenov, Michael and Krupnik, Igor. 2012. "Novaia zemlia: istoriia poslednei migratsii aziatskikh eskimosov (1920–1935) [The "New Land": To the History of the Last Migration of the Yupik/Asiatic Eskimo, 1920–1935]." In Vekhi na mysakh (Milestones on the Capes). Festschrift in honor of Sergei A. Arutyunov. Bronshtein, Michael and Krupnik, Igor, editors. 70–83. Moscow, Russia: Museum of Oriental Arts. 2012
- Krupnik, Igor. 2012. "Reading Tiger Burch: From Skeptic to Believer." In Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska: 1850-2000. Burch, Ernest S., Jr. and Krupnik, Igor, editors. xi–xiv. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2012
- Krupnik, Igor, Ellis-Evans, Cynan, and Elfring, Chris. 2011. "Early Planning for IPY: 2003-2004." In Understanding earth's Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, Ian, Bell, R., Cutler, P., Hik, D., Lopez-Martinez, J., Rachold, Volker, Sarukhanian, E., and Summerheyes, Colin, editors. 49–68. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute. 2011
- Krupnik, Igor. 2011. "From IPY-1 to IGY: Early Lessons in Making Global Science." In Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, I., Bell, R., Cutler, P., Hik, D., Lopez-Martinez, J., Rachold, V., Sarukhanian, E., and Summerhayes, C., editors. 5–28. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute. 2011
- Krupnik, Igor. 2011. "How IPY 2007-2008 Was Born: 1997-2003." In Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, Ian, Bell, R., Cutler, P., Hik, D., Lopez-Martinez, J., Rachold, Volker, Sarukhanian, E., and Summerheyes, Colin, editors. 29–48. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute. 2011
- Hovelsrud, Grete, Krupnik, Igor, and White, Jeremy. 2011. "Human-Based Observing Systems." In Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, Ian, Bell, R., Cutler, P., Hik, D., Lopez-Martinez, J., Rachold, Volker, Sarukhanian, E., and Summerheyes, Colin, editors. 435–456. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute. 2011
- Krupnik, Igor. 2011. "IPY 2007-2008 and Social Sciences: A Challenge of Fifty Years." In Arctic Social Sciences - Prospects for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 Era and Beyound. Poppel, B. and Csonka, Y., editors. 61–93. Nuuk: Ilimatusarfik - University of Greenland. 2011
- Summerhayes, Colin, Rachold, Volker, and Krupnik, Igor. 2011. "IPY and Expending Partnership in Coordination of Polar Research." In Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, Ian, Bell, R., Cutler, P., Hik, D., Lopez-Martinez, J., Rachold, Volker, Sarukhanian, E., and Summerhayes, Colin, editors. 593–608. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute. 2011
- Allison, Ian and Krupnik, Igor. 2011. "Organization and Implementation of IPY: 2005-2009." In Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, Ian, Bell, R., Cutler, P., Hik, D., Lopez-Martinez, J., Rachold, Volker, Sarukhanian, E., and Summerheyes, Colin, editors. 87–114. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute. 2011
- Krupnik, Igor and Hoveslrud, Grete. 2011. "Polar Societies and Social Processes." In Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges: Internationa Polar Year 2007-2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, Ian, Bell, R., Cutler, P., Hik, D., Lopez-Martinez, J., Rachold, Volker, Sarukhanian, E., and Summerheyes, Colin, editors. 311–334. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute. 2011
- Krupnik, Igor, Apangalook, Leonard, and Apangalook, Paul. 2010. ""It's Cold, but Not Cold Enough": Observing Ice and Climate Change in Gambell, Alaska, in IPY 2007–2008 and Beyond." In SIKU: knowing our ice : documenting Inuit sea ice knowledge and use. Krupnik, Igor, Aporta, Claudio, Gearheard, Shari, Laidler, Gita J., and Holm, Lene Kielsen, editors. 81–114. Dordrecht: Springer. 2010
- Krupnik, Igor and Müller-Wille, Ludger. 2010. "Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax"." In SIKU: knowing our ice : documenting Inuit sea ice knowledge and use. Krupnik, Igor, Aporta, Claudio, Gearheard, Shari, Laidler, Gita J., and Holm, Lene Kielsen, editors. 377–400. Dordrecht: Springer. 2010
- Krupnik, Igor. 2010. "How Many Eskimo Words for Ice (New Studies on Eskimo Ice terminologies during International Polar Year 2007-2008." In Studia Anthropologica: A Festschrift in Honour to Michail Chlenov. Fedorchuk, Artem and Chlenova, Svetlana, editors. 409–443. Moscow: Gesharim. 2010
- Krupnik, Igor and Weyapuk, Winton, Jr. 2010. "Qanuq Ilitaavut:"How We Learned What We Know" (Wales Inupiaq Sea Ice Dictionary)." In SIKU : knowing our ice : documenting Inuit sea ice knowledge and use. Krupnik, Igor, Aporta, Claudio, Gearheard, Shari, Laidler, Gita J., and Holm, Lene Kielsen, editors. 321–354. Dordrecht: Springer. 2010
- Krupnik, Igor, Aporta, Claudio, and Laidler, Gita J. 2010. "SIKU: International Polar Year Project #166 (An Overview)." In SIKU: knowing our ice : documenting Inuit sea ice knowledge and use. Krupnik, Igor, Aporta, Claudio, Gearheard, Shari, Laidler, Gita J., and Holm, Lene Kielsen, editors. 1–29. Dordrecht: Springer. 2010
- Krupnik, Igor. 2009. ""The Way We See It Coming": Building the Legacy of Indigenous Observations in IPY 2007–2008." In Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science. Krupnik, Igor, Lang, Michael A., and Miller, Scott E., editors. 129–142. In IPY. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.097884601X.11. 2009
- Krupnik, Igor and Chlenov, Mikhail. 2009. "Distant Lands and Brave Pioneers: Original Thule Migration Revisited." In On the Track of the Thule Culture from Bering Strait to East Greenland. Gronnow, Bjarne, editor. 13–24. Copenhagen: Danish National Museum. 2009
- Krupnik, Igor. 2009. "From Jesup-1 to Jesup-2: The Centennial Decade (1902-2002) Revisited." In "The Raven Arch" (1903-2002). The Jesup North Pacific Expedition Revisited. Tanimoto, Kazounobu and Inoue, Koichi, editors. 1–28. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. In Senri Ethnological Reports 82. 2009
- Krupnik, Igor and Vakhtin, Nikolai. 2009. "Remebering and Forgetting. Culture Change and Indigenous Knowledge in Chukotka in the post-Jesup Era (in Japanese)." In "The Raven Arch" (1903-2002). The Jesup North Pacific Expedition Revisited. Tanimoto, Kazounobu and Inoue, Koichi, editors. 209–232. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. In Senri Ethnological Report, 82. 2009
- Krupnik, Igor and Bogoslovskaya, Lyudmila S. 2008. "International Polar Year 2007-2008: The SIKU Project in Alaska and Chukotka." In Beringia - A Bridge of Friendship. 196–2004. Tomsk: Tomsk University Press. 2008
- Bogoslovskaya, Lyudmila S. and Krupnik, Igor. 2008. "Traditional Sea Mammal Hunting in Chukotka: Generational Replacement at the Turn of the Century." In Tropoyu Bogoraza/Along the Path of Bogoras (in Russian). Bogoslovskaya, L. S., Krivoshchekov, V., and Krupnik, Igor I., editors. 166–174. Moscow: Russian Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage. 2008
- Krupnik, Igor. 2008. "Waldemar Bogoras, His Time and His Disciples." In Tropoyu Bogoraza/ Along the Path of Bogoras (in Russian). Bogoslovskaya, Ludmila S., Krivoshchekov, V., and Krupnik, Igor, editors. 17–22. Moscow: Russian Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage. 2008
- Virginia, R. A., Yalowitz, K. S., and Krupnik, Igor. 2007. "Introduction: Perceptions of Arctic Climate Change." In Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment. Stuckenberger, N., editor. 12–15. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. 2007
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Conference Paper
- Crowell, Aron L., Krupnik, Igor, Fitzhugh, William W., Engelstad, Bernadette, Dean, Bernadette, Harper, Kenneth, MacKenzie, Scott, Michelsen, Knud, Kleist, Mari, Griebel, Brendan, Sonne, Birgitte, Pratt, Kenneth, Shokarev, Sergei, Schwalbe, Daria, Appelt, Martin, Nielsen, Bent, Norbert, Eileen, and Bronshtein, Michael. 2021. "From Greenland to the Pacific: Centennial of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-1924." in Alaska Journal of Anthropology. 19 (1-2), iii–269. 46th Annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association (Nome, Alaska) 2019-02-28. Alaska Anthropological Association. 2021
Editor Of
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Book
- Krupnik, Igor I., editor. 2022. Handbook of North American Indians Volume 1: Introduction. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. Sturtevant, William C. Handbook of North American Indians, 1. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.21262173. 2022
- Krupnik, Igor and Crowell, Aron, editors. 2020. Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2020
- Nakashima, Douglas, Krupnik, Igor, and Rubis, Jennifer, editors. 2018. Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press and UNESCO Publishing. In Local and Indigenous Knowledge - UNESCO, 2. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316481066. 2018
- Krupnik, Igor, editor. 2016. Early Inuit studies: themes and transitions, 1850s-1980s. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2016
- Bogoslovskaya, L. S. and Krupnik, Igor, editors. 2013. Nashi l'dy, snega i vetry (Our Ice, Snow and Winds. Indigenous and Academic Knowledge of Ice-Scapes ad Climate of Eastern Chukotka) - in Russian. Moscow: Russian Hertiage Institute. 2013
- Krupnik, Igor and Kaneshiro, Vera Oovi , editors. 2011. Faces We Remember/Neqamikegkaput. Leuman M. Waugh's Photography from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, 1929–1930. Washington, DC: Arctic Studies Center and Smithsonian Institution Schoraly Press. In Contributions to circumpolar anthropology, 9.. 2011
- Krupnik, Igor, Allison, I., Bell, R., Cutler, P., Hik, D., Lopez-Martinez, J., Rachold, V., and Sarukhanian, E. , editors. 2011. Underatanding Earth's Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute. 2011
- Krupnik, Igor, Aporta, Claudio, Gearheard, Shari, Laidler, Gita J., and Kielsen Holm, Lene , editors. 2010. SIKU: knowing our ice : documenting Inuit sea ice knowledge and use. Dordrecht: Springer. 2010
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Krupnik, Igor and Jolly, Deana, editors. 2010. The Earth Is Faster Now. Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change
. 2nd reprint with new Preface ed. Fairbanks: ARCUS. 2010 - Krupnik, Igor, Lang, Michael A., and Miller, Scott E., editors. 2009. Smithsonian at the poles: contributions to International Polar Year science. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.097884601X.0. 2009
Activities
Responsible Collections Areas
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Arctic/Northern Ethnology - North America (US/Alaska, Canada, Greenland), Northern Eurasia (Scandinavia, Russian Federation)
South America
Reviewer Of
- Arctic (Journal)
- Arctic Anthropology (Journal)
- Etudes/Inuit/Studies (Journal)
Professional Service Activities
- Sibirica, Editorial Board Member, Board member 2017 -
- NMNH Senate of Scientists Member, past Chair, Dept. representative 2002 -
- Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology, Lead Editor Editor 2001 -
- Acta Borealia, Editorial Board Member Member, Board member 1997 -
- Arctic Anthropology, Editorial Board Member, Board member 1990 -
- Smithsonian Publication Overview Committee Member 2008 - 2017
- Etudes/Inuit Studies, Editorial Board Member, Board member 1992 - 2014
Has Knowledge Of
Affiliation
Head Of
- Ethnology, Department of Anthropology, NMNH Head 2010 -
Member Of
- Inter-Agency Arctic Research Policy Committee Member 2003 -
- NMNH Senate of Scientists Member, past Chair, Dept. representative 2002 -
- International Arctic Social Sciences Association Member, Board member 1990 -
- Arctic Studies Center (Smithsonian Program)
- NMNH - Dept. of Anthropology
- Joint Committee for International Polar Year 2007-2008 Member, Board member 2005 - 2010
Contact
Location
- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department