ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on the author's experience with Inuit hunters, along with observations of everyday life. As an ethnographer working on Inuit way finding knowledge and skills since 2000, the author have shared many conversations with Inuit hunters regarding, not only their traditional methods, but also the use of maps and of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Over the years, the author have seen how GPS units have gradually made their way from marginal navigation aids used tentatively in emergencies, to essential parts of the toolkit that most Inuit travellers take along on their trips. The chapter takes the Inuit experience only as a point of departure to offer a broader reflection on how new navigational and cartographic technologies are actually embedded and entangled in an ever more intricate world of technologies. It argues that within this new ecology of technology that people's lives are actually unfolding.
