Yupik Women, Yupik Families: A Comparative Study of Siberian Yupik and St. Lawrence Island Yupik Family Life

该项目将调查阿拉斯加州圣劳伦斯岛和俄罗斯楚科特卡两个尤皮克爱斯基摩人社区的妇女和儿童的生活。甘贝尔和西尔尼基这两个社区的人都是近亲，仍然强烈认为自己是尤皮克人，但他们经历了与西方政策和文化非常不同的接触历史。研究人员将与长辈、家庭团体和社区工作队伍中的尤皮克妇女合作。将记录生活史，并记录生育任务、家庭互动和教育环境。此外，还将对与情感和价值观有关的词语进行分析。这项研究的特点是比较绕极，多方面的方法相结合，关注妇女、儿童和家庭生活，关注文化心理，人格的本质，以及情感和价值观的社会化。

This project will investigate the lives of women and children in two Yupik Eskimo communities on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, and in Chukotka, Russia. The people of both communities, Gambell and Sireniki, are close kin and still strongly identify themselves as Yupik, but they have experienced very different histories of contact with Western policies and cultures. The researchers will work with elders, with family groups, and with Yupik women in community work forces. Life histories will be recorded as well as documentation of childbearing tasks, interactions of families and in education settings. Analysis of words related to emotions and values will also be carried out. The special features of the research are the circumpolar comparisons, the combinations of multifaceted methodologies, the attention paid to women, children and family life and a focus on cultural psychology, the nature of personhood, and the socialization of emotions and values.