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

这是一个早期概念的探索性研究赠款（EAGER）项目，目的是对居住在阿拉斯加三角洲交界处地区的前苏联移民定居者进行民族志研究，他们自称为“三角洲俄罗斯人”。" 该项目是一个跨学科的社会文化调查的移民历史，食品采购策略，物质文化，和世界观的这个散居在阿拉斯加州的俄罗斯社区。 三角洲俄罗斯人是一个快速增长的社区，人口从3，000到3，500人不等，拥有大家庭，他们利用各种丰富的野生资源，并通过种植作物和畜牧业补充食物，并通过为当地市场生产商品来获得收入。 虽然20世纪俄罗斯移民到阿拉斯加一直是社会科学研究的主题，但这项工作的重点是老信徒人口，这是一个宗教教派，在19世纪从他们的远东俄罗斯根源分裂到加州定居，然后在20世纪再次定居在阿拉斯加，这将是俄罗斯新移民首次成为社会科学研究的对象。 更重要的是，这项研究建立在其他学者在学科的建议，开始与移民散居后不久，他们到达，以了解全方位的适应策略，对解决。 三角洲俄罗斯人为研究小组提供了一个独特的机会，调查“一个在真实的时间和[既定的]社会背景下出现的人类生态位。"

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."