ABSTRACT

The Inughuit of Northwest Greenland are hunters of marine mammals and other animal species of the High Arctic ecological system. Their life is rapidly changing along with the warming Arctic, and they experience massive changes in the environment that always sustained them. This fuels a question of the end of nature, to be addressed through three different natural materialities: ice, water, and land – all of them deeply infiltrating social life. The ice, now melting rapidly, has provided the infrastructure of moving into and about in the region. The water, now opening widely, has made marine mammals the major game. The land, now slowly expanding, increasingly features as a repository of unknown resources. It is suggested that the Inughuit have always dwelled within an ‘ending of nature’, seen as a non-linear process deeply embedded in larger geo-social processes of multiple temporalities.

摘要

格陵兰岛西北部的因纽特人是海洋哺乳动物和北极生态系统其他动物物种的猎手。随着北极变暖，他们的生活正在迅速改变，他们经历了一直支撑着他们的环境的巨大变化。这引发了自然终结的问题，需要通过三种不同的自然物质来解决：冰、水和土地——所有这些都深深地渗透到社会生活中。现在正在迅速融化的冰层为进出该地区提供了基础设施。现在开阔的水域使海洋哺乳动物成为主要的游戏对象。这片土地现在正在缓慢扩张，越来越多地成为未知资源的宝库。有人建议因纽特人一直居住在“自然的终结”中，