The Influence Aging, Social Structure, and Money on Subsistence Hunting among Adult Inuit in Two Canadian Communities

这项研究是对努纳武特（克莱德河）和西北地区（霍尔曼）两个小因纽特社区中影响个人参与因纽特人生存系统的因素之间的相互联系的检查。该项目主要关注1955-1970年间出生的成年人队列，其工作假设是，积极参与生存取决于五个相互关联的因素，包括(1)年龄和成熟度；(2)在社会结构中的地位；(3)在社会网络中的位置；(4)获取非传统资本；(5)物质文化资源的获取。最近的研究发现，所有这些因素都是在更广泛的生存体系内塑造个人的因素。PIs Collings和Wenzel假设，一个人在其中一个主要领域的地位可能会影响因努克人在其他领域的地位，而这些领域又反过来影响他们对生存的参与。这个应用程序的目标是理解这些因素之间的情景相互作用。此外，这个项目将记录过去十年来经济中工资部门的扩大在多大程度上改变或加强了维持生计制度的物质和社会关系。研究人员假设，对于那些找不到雇佣劳动的人来说，参与自给经济并不是另一种经济策略。相反，我们假设，在过去十年中，获得非传统资本对生存实践的成功变得越来越重要。

This research is an examination of the interconnections between the factors that influence individual participation in the Inuit subsistence system in two small Inuit communities in Nunavut (Clyde River) and the Northwest Territories (Holman). Focusing primarily on the cohort of adults born between 1955-1970, the working hypothesis of this project is that active involvement in subsistence is predicated on five interrelated factors, including (1) age and maturation; (2) position within social structure; (3) position within social networks; (4) access to non-traditional capital; and (5) access to material culture resources. All of these factors have been identified by recent research as framing an individual within the wider subsistence system. PIs Collings and Wenzel postulate that an individual's status in one of these principal domains may affect that Inuk's status in other domains, which in turn influence involvement in subsistence. The objective in this application is to understand the situational interplay between these factors.Additionally, this project will document the degree to which the expansion of the wage sector of the economy over the past decade has modified or enhanced the material and social relations of subsistence systems. The researchers postulate that participation in the subsistence economy for this cohort of men is not an alternative economic strategy for those who cannot find wage labor employment. Rather, we hypothesize that access to non-traditional capital has, over the past decade, become more and more critical to the success of subsistence practice.