Social Benefits and Cultural Consequences of Basketball in Rural Alaska

拟议的项目，研究生研究员Droulias，是一个民族志，将探讨篮球比赛的文化意义，在阿拉斯加内陆的Nenana社区。正如研究人员正确指出的那样，篮球是阿拉斯加社区的一项重要活动，特别是小型农村社区，主要是阿拉斯加土著社区。Droulias建议研究篮球在多大程度上可以隐喻社区凝聚力，并最终反映社区本身的社会和文化建设。

The proposed project, graduate researcher Droulias, is an ethnography that will explore the cultural significance of the game of basketball to the community of Nenana in the Interior of Alaska. As the researcher correctly point out Basketball is a significant activity to Alaskan communities and in particular small, rural, primarily Alaska Native, communities. Droulias proposes to examine the extent to which basketball could be a metaphor for community cohesiveness and ultimately a reflection of the social and cultural construction of community itself.