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

这项研究考察了努纳武特(克莱德河)和西北地区(霍尔曼)两个因纽特人小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。该项目的工作假设主要集中在1955-1970年出生的成年人群体，即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；(2)在社会结构中的地位；(3)在社会网络中的地位；(4)获得非传统资本；以及(5)获得物质文化资源。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一个人。皮斯·科林斯和温泽尔假设，个人在这些主要领域中的一个领域的地位可能会影响该因努克在其他领域的地位，进而影响对生存的参与。本申请的目的是了解这些因素之间的情况相互作用。此外，本项目将记录过去十年来经济中工资部门的扩张对生活系统的物质和社会关系的改善或加强的程度。研究人员假设，对于那些找不到有工资的劳动力工作的人来说，参与这一群体的自给自足经济并不是一种替代的经济策略。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越来越关键。

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.