Dissertation Research: Hunting as Being and Knowing in Northwest Alaska

论文研究：阿拉斯加西北部的狩猎作为存在和认知

• 批准号: 0715158
• 负责人: Peter Schweitzer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0715158&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Hunting; Being; Knowing

This project supports ethnographic field research of a graduate student, Josh Wisniewski, in an Inupiaq subsistence hunting community in Northwest, Alaska. In the tradition of ethnographic anthropology, Wisniewski will explore the relationship between Inupiaq knowledge of the environment and active immersion in the environment. Through participant observation and semi structured interviews, the researcher will collect data on the ecological/economic and the ideological/cosmologic dimensions of human action in the arctic. Working as an apprentice hunter, Wisniewski will explore his hypothesis that local ways of knowing the environment extend beyond taxonomic descriptions, animal behavior, and migration routes. Local modes of knowing and engaging in a "sentient" natural world form a relational ontological framework. Through this project, the researcher hopes to gain insight into this knowledge framework and a deeper understanding of Inupiaq personhood. In addition, because this community may be forced to relocate due to climate induced erosion destabilizing their shore, the project will contribute to the community's on-going cultural and historic preservation by providing textual and visual media materials documenting ecological knowledge, hunting and food preservation practices, as well as insights into adaptation to their rapidly changing environment.

该项目支持研究生Josh Wisniewski在阿拉斯加西北部的因纽皮克狩猎社区进行的人种志实地研究。在民族人类学的传统中，维斯涅夫斯基将探索因努皮克人对环境的了解与主动融入环境之间的关系。通过参与观察和半结构化访谈，研究人员将收集北极人类活动的生态/经济和意识形态/宇宙学方面的数据。作为一名学徒猎人，Wisniewski将探索他的假设，即了解当地环境的方式超出了分类描述、动物行为和迁徙路线。认识和参与“有感觉的”自然世界的局部模式形成了一个关系本体框架。通过这个项目，研究人员希望深入了解这个知识框架，并更深入地了解因努皮克人的人格。此外，由于气候侵蚀导致海岸不稳定，该社区可能被迫搬迁，该项目将通过提供记录生态知识、狩猎和食物保存实践的文字和视觉媒体材料，以及对快速变化的环境的适应，为社区正在进行的文化和历史保护做出贡献。