An Ethnographic Investigation of the Cultural and Social Adaptation of a New Immigrant Russian Community in Delta Junction,Alaska.

阿拉斯加三角洲交界处新移民俄罗斯社区的文化和社会适应的民族志调查。

• 批准号: 1151895
• 负责人: Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1151895&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ethnographic; Investigation; Cultural; Social; Adaptation

This is an EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project to do ethnographic research among the ex-Soviet immigrant settlers living in the Delta Junction area of Alaska, self-designated "Delta Russians." The project is an interdisciplinary social cultural investigation of the migration history, food procurement strategies, material culture, and worldview of this diasporic Russian community in Alaska. The Delta Russians are a rapidly growing community, ranging in population from 3,000-3,500, with large extended family households that exploit diverse and abundant wild resources as well as supplementing their food with crop cultivation and animal husbandry and their incomes with the domestic production of goods for the local market. Although 20th century Russian migration to Alasksa has been the subject of social science research, this work has focused on Old Believer populations, a religious sect that fractured from their Far East Russian roots in the 19th Century to settle in California and then again in the 20th Century to settle in Alaska, this project is will be the first time that new Russian settlers have been the subject of social science research. More importantly, this research builds on the recommendations from other scholars in the discipline to begin working with immigrant diasporas soon after they arrive in order to understand the full range of adaptation strategies employed toward settlement. The Delta Russians provide a unique opportunity for the research team to investigate "a human ecological niche emerging in real time and in a [established]social context."

这是一个早期概念的探索性研究补助金 (EAGER) 项目，旨在对居住在阿拉斯加三角洲枢纽地区的前苏联移民定居者（自称为“三角洲俄罗斯人”）进行人种学研究。 该项目是对阿拉斯加俄罗斯侨民社区的移民历史、食品采购策略、物质文化和世界观的跨学科社会文化调查。 三角洲俄罗斯人是一个快速增长的社区，人口从 3,000 人到 3,500 人不等，拥有大型大家庭，他们开发多样且丰富的野生资源，并通过种植农作物和畜牧业来补充食物，并通过为当地市场生产国内商品来补充收入。 虽然20世纪俄罗斯人向阿拉斯加的移民一直是社会科学研究的主题，但这项工作的重点是老信徒群体，这是一个在19世纪从远东俄罗斯根源分裂出来的宗教教派，在加利福尼亚州定居，然后在20世纪再次在阿拉斯加定居，该项目将是新俄罗斯定居者第一次成为社会科学研究的对象。 更重要的是，这项研究建立在该学科其他学者的建议的基础上，即在移民侨民抵达后立即开始与他们合作，以了解定居所采用的全方位适应策略。 三角洲俄罗斯人为研究团队提供了一个独特的机会来调查“在[既定]社会背景下实时出现的人类生态位”。