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This was a project of the Polar Knowledges research theme. People.

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You are not currentlyScrimshaw Collection. Scrimshaw is the name given to the wide variety of objects made or decorated by people involved with the whaling industry, and also to the process

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There is also time for other people. They visit each other, play cards, mend hunting gear, sew fur clothes, do beadwork, play the organ or just are. ... On my first trip, it was hard to get to know people, because I did not speak the Polar Eskimo language

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For God’s sake look after our people.”. Eight months later, Wilson and Bowers were found in the attitude of sleep. ... How did so many people become so cynical that they could not recognise genuine heroism and disinterested scientific curiosity and

environmental issues. zoology (especially sea mammals and birds). indigenous peoples of northern Russia, North America and the European Arctic. ... infringing international law and having detrimental effect on lives of native peoples of region.

The people. Native peoples have occupied this area for centuries. Traditionally, they led a semi-nomadic subsistence life, herding reindeer, fishing, hunting on land and at sea, and collecting wild berries, ... The massive influx of non-Native people

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a centre for the stimulation of interest in the polar regions; in their peoples and environments, and the relationship of those environments to the world as a whole;.

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People. The following person in the Institute is involved in this project:.

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People. The following people in the Institute were involved in this project:.

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Search site. You are in: Home » Events » Seminars. See also:. Seminars. Seminars. See also: Research Seminars. How much for just the polar bear? Oil development in the arctic and the management of environmental risk. John Ash. 5pm, Monday 9th

The main project website has more information on this project. People. ... The following people in the Institute were involved in this project:.

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Lindgren also lectured the MPhil students at SPRI about the people she had met and their ways of life. ... In spite of its Antarctic beginnings, SPRI was always also interested in the people and environment of the Arctic.

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Presentations include:. Jackie Price, SPRI: "Regenerating Inuit Arctic governance through people and place".

The main project website has more information on this project. People. ... The following people in the Institute were involved in this project:.

Lt. Nobu Shirase's ambition to be a polar explorer had caught the imagination of a people frustrated at not being regarded as equals by the West, and determined to show

We are also working with the relationships that exist between individual people, societies, and cultures on the one hand – and animals on the other.

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