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Krupnik, Igor

Chair of Anthropology and Curator of Circumpolar Ethnology

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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

Geographic Focus

Background And Education

Education And Training

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

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

Keywords

  • Arctic, North America, indigenous people, socio-cultural systems, heritage, traditional knowledge, modernization, northern ethnological collections, history of anthropological research

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Article

  • 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

  • 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. 2022. "Indigenous Ice Dictionaries: Sharing Knowledge for a Changing World." In Resilience Through Knowledge Co-Production. Indigenous Knowledge, Science and Global Environmental Change. Roue, Marie, Nakashima, Douglas, and Krupnik, Igor, editors. 93–116. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974349), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974349.007. 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
    • Eicken, Hajo, Krupnik, Igor, Weyapuk, Winton, Jr., and Druckenmiller, Matthew. 2022. "Learning about Sea Ice from the Kingikmiut: A Decade of Ice Seasons at Wales, Alaska, 2006-2016." In Resilience through Knowledge Co-Production. Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Global Environmental Change. Roue, Marie, Nakashima, Douglas, and Krupnik, Igor, editors. 43–66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and UNESCO. (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974349), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974349. 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. "Negotiating Co-production: Climbing the Learning Curve." In Resilience through Knowledge Co-Production. Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Global Environmental Change. Roue, Marie, Nakashima, Douglas, and Krupnik, Igor, editors. 277–286. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and UNESCO. (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974349), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974349. 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

  • 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

  • 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
    • Roue, Marie, Nakashima, Douglas, and Krupnik, Igor, editors. 2022. Resilience through Knowledge Co-Production. Indigenous Knowledge, Science and Global Environmental Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and UNESCO. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974349. 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
    • 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

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  • Arctic/Northern Ethnology - North America (US/Alaska, Canada, Greenland), Northern Eurasia (Scandinavia, Russian Federation)
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