Contemporary Tlingit Family, Kinship, and Marriage: The Impact of Change

9402724本论文的目标是分析社会和文化变迁的本质，以及制约和促进这些变迁的条件。这项研究基于人种学和档案分析，重点关注阿拉斯加特林吉特村霍纳在过去50年中发生的变化。据认为，这些变化是村子无法控制的事件以及村长刻意决定的结果。此外，有人建议，社会变革可能是社会成员故意创造的，作为产生政治权力的一种手段。该项目将填补我们对当代美洲原住民社会组织知识的一个重大空白，并为文化转型的人类学知识做出贡献。***

9402724 BARSNESS The goals of this dissertation project are to analyze the nature of social and culture change, and the conditions that constrain and promote these changes. The study, based on ethnographic and archival analysis, focuses on alterations that have occurred during the past 50 years in the Tlingit village of Hoonah, Alaska. It is proposed that these changes were the results of events beyond village control as well as deliberate decisions by village leaders. Furthermore, it is suggested that social change may be deliberately created by members of a society as a means to generate political power. The project will fill a major gap in our knowledge of contemporary Native American social organization and contribute to anthropological knowledge of cultural transformation. ***