An Anthropological and Linguistic Investigation of Arctic Ceremonial Traditions

熊是许多北美民族的文化基石物种。熊的仪式是阿尔冈琴文化生活的一个重要元素，历史上也是阿拉斯加土著民族的特征，包括内陆的阿萨巴斯卡人、沿海的因纽特人和尤皮克人、海达人、钦仙人和特林吉特人。该奖项支持对北美阿萨巴斯卡社区的仪式如何封装其语言，环境和文化知识的科学调查。像世界上许多原住民一样，阿萨巴斯卡人举行精心制作的仪式，专注于人与动物之间的精神关系，以确保狩猎成功并保持与环境的可持续关系。这项研究将探讨这种知识在多大程度上支持这些民族的环境和文化的长期可持续性。该方法采用知识和文化保护共同生产的框架;社区成员在数据收集和分析以及数据和成果的介绍方面发挥关键作用。该研究将测试关于传统仪式和当地知识和经验的作用的预测，以及它们与文化认同和社区健康和福祉的关系。该项目将采用混合方法研究策略，收集和汇编历史仪式实践的文本和视频文件，以及当代表演。该项目将侧重于传统的狩猎仪式，因为这些仪式在当前的社会和文化制度中面临的风险最大。该项目将侧重于与土著学者协商分析文献记录，并选择关键文本以母语转录并翻译成西方语言，以创建数字数据语料库。这些本地文本的定性内容分析，文化领域分析和土著评论将被用来发展支持社区健康和福祉以及与环境的可持续关系的文化原则和做法的理解。该项目还将分析仪式，以描述如何广泛报道，但很少理解的讽刺使用是用来戏剧化的文化价值观。该项目的数据管理计划内容广泛，包括一个可供其他学者和公众查阅的在线、开放式、多媒体档案。这些数据将使用基于Drupal的平台进行收集和存储，用于类似Mukurtu的收集管理系统;这是一个免费的，移动的和开源的平台，与土著社区一起建立，以管理和共享数字文化遗产。这些数据还将与国家冰雪数据中心（NSIDC）的北极地方观测和知识交换（EXCHANGE OF LOOLD OVELOPMENT AND KNOWLING OF THE Arctic）一起存储。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Bears are cultural keystone species for many North American peoples. Bear ceremonialism is an important element of Algonkian cultural life, and historically has also been characteristic of Alaska Native peoples including interior Athabascan, coastal Inuit and Yupik, Haida, Tsimshian, and Tlingit peoples. This award supports the scientific investigation of how ceremonies of Athabascan communities in North America encapsulate their linguistic, environmental, and cultural knowledge. Like many Indigenous peoples of the world, Athabascans hold elaborate ceremonies that focus on the spiritual relationships between human beings and animals as a means of ensuring success in hunting and maintaining sustainable relationships with their environment. The research will explore the extent this knowledge supports the long-term sustainability of the environment and culture of these peoples. The approach uses a framework of coproduction of knowledge and cultural conservation; community members play a critical role in the collection and analysis of the data, and the presentation of the data and outcomes. The research will test predictions regarding the roles of traditional ceremonies and local knowledge and experience, and their relationship to cultural identity and community health and wellbeing.The project will employ a mixed methods research strategy collecting and assembling text and video documentation of historical ceremonial practice, and contemporary performances. The project will focus on traditional hunting ceremonies because these are most at risk within the current social and cultural system. The project will focus on analyzing the documentary record in consultation with Indigenous scholars, and key texts will be chosen for transcription in the native language and translation to western languages to create a corpus of digital data. Qualitative content analysis of these native texts, cultural domain analysis, and Indigenous commentary will be used to develop an understanding of cultural principles and practices that support community health and well-being and a sustainable relationship to the environment. The project will also analyze the ceremonies to describe how the widely reported but little understood use of satire is used to dramatize cultural values. The data management plan for the project is extensive and includes an online, open-ended, multi-media archive accessible to other scholars and the public. The data will be collected and stored using a Drupal-based platform for a Mukurtu-like Collection Management System; this is a free, mobile, and open source platform built with Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage. The data will also be stored with the Exchange of Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The communities will also use the project to strengthen a master-apprenticeship program in ceremonial traditions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.