"This publication accompanies the Citi Exhibition 'Arctic : culture and climate' at the British Museum."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 314) and index.

Sponsor's foreword -- Director's foreword -- Preface -- Maps -- Chapter 1. Climate change in the Arctic. The Arctic experience of climate change -- Atigiit, Silapaat -- Alaskan Inuit food sovereignty : from the perspective of a hunting culture -- Chapter 2. Seasonal lives. Relations with animals in the Circumpolar North -- Sakha summer festival -- Reindeer herders and mobility -- Chapter 3. Living with weather. Harnessing weather in hunting livelihoods -- Making my amautis -- Working with nalua : the most delicate of sealskin -- Chapter 4. Arctic ancestors. The earliest Arctic settlers -- 9,000 years ago in the Siberian Arctic -- Zhokhov Island -- Earliest-known people in the North American Arctic -- Focusing on the coast -- The first Arctic culture in North America -- The north of western Siberia in the Iron Age : trade, imports, new ideas -- The Punuk / Birnirk interregnum of the 9th to 11th centuries -- Chapter 5. A resilient north. Rapid change -- Russian colonialism -- Southern ambitions -- Trade in the Bering Strait -- Changing state and exploration of the Russian Arctic : expanding horizons of ethnographic knowledge -- The 'shaman's mask' -- Governing the Arctic -- The art of resilience -- Living with ice in a changing world -- Collecting histories -- Notes -- Further reading -- List of contributors -- List of lenders and acknowledgements -- Picture credits -- Index.