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

这项研究是一个检查的因素之间的相互联系，影响个人参与因纽特人生存系统中的两个小因纽特人社区在努纳武特（克莱德河）和西北地区（霍尔曼）。 本项目主要关注1955 - 1970年出生的成年人群体，其工作假设是，积极参与生计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）在社交网络中的地位;（4）获得非传统资本的机会;（5）获得物质文化资源的机会。 所有这些因素都被最近的研究确定为在更广泛的生存系统中框定个人。 皮林斯和温泽尔假设，一个人在这些主要领域之一的地位可能会影响该因纽特人在其他领域的地位，这反过来又影响了对生存的参与。 本应用的目的是了解这些因素之间的情境相互作用，此外，本项目还将记录过去十年经济中工资部门的扩张在多大程度上改变或加强了维持生计系统的物质和社会关系。 研究人员假设，对于那些找不到工资劳动就业的人来说，参与这一群体的生计经济并不是一种替代经济战略。 相反，我们假设，在过去的十年中，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.