Yupik Women, Yupik Families: A Comparative Study of Siberian Yupik and St. Lawrence Island Yupik Family Life

该项目将调查阿拉斯加圣劳伦斯岛和俄罗斯楚科奇的两个尤皮克爱斯基摩社区的妇女和儿童的生活。 这两个社区的人，Gambell和Sireniki，是近亲，仍然强烈地认为自己是Yupik，但他们经历了非常不同的接触西方政策和文化的历史。 研究人员将与老年人、家庭团体和社区工作队伍中的尤皮克妇女合作。 将记录生活史以及生育任务、家庭互动和教育环境的文件。 还将对与情感和价值观有关的词语进行分析。 该研究的特点是进行了两极比较，综合了多方面的方法，关注妇女、儿童和家庭生活，并侧重于文化心理、人格的性质以及情感和价值观的社会化。

This project will investigate the lives of women and children in two Yupik Eskimo communities on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, and in Chukotka, Russia. The people of both communities, Gambell and Sireniki, are close kin and still strongly identify themselves as Yupik, but they have experienced very different histories of contact with Western policies and cultures. The researchers will work with elders, with family groups, and with Yupik women in community work forces. Life histories will be recorded as well as documentation of childbearing tasks, interactions of families and in education settings. Analysis of words related to emotions and values will also be carried out. The special features of the research are the circumpolar comparisons, the combinations of multifaceted methodologies, the attention paid to women, children and family life and a focus on cultural psychology, the nature of personhood, and the socialization of emotions and values.