Alaska Inupiat Subsistence and Wage Employement Patterns: Understanding Individual Choice
Following a decade of intense wage employment activity, North Slope Inupiat continue to engage in subsistence activities. Two surveys conduced a decade apart are used to examine the role individual choice in the persistence of subsistence activities. Survey results document an increase in labor forc...
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ftunivalaska:oai:scholarworks.alaska.edu:11122/14413 2023-10-29T02:37:30+01:00 Alaska Inupiat Subsistence and Wage Employement Patterns: Understanding Individual Choice Kruse, John A. 1991 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/14413 en_US eng Society for Applied Anthropology Human Organization, Vol. 50, No. 4, 1991, pp. 317-326 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/14413 Human Organization Subsistence Development Motivation Native Alaskan Hunting Report 1991 ftunivalaska 2023-10-05T18:03:03Z Following a decade of intense wage employment activity, North Slope Inupiat continue to engage in subsistence activities. Two surveys conduced a decade apart are used to examine the role individual choice in the persistence of subsistence activities. Survey results document an increase in labor force participation, an increase in household income, and a decrease in household size. At the same time, the percentage of households on the North Slope obtaining over half their food from subsistence activities has increased. These are other finding suggest that continued subsistence activity is not simply a matter of necessity; it is also a matter of individual choice. Subsistence harvest and distribution activities may offer benefits well beyond nutrition that are less commonly available in wage jobs. Further research in this area may not only help explain in the persistence of subsistence activities, but also provide a link with research on the mental wellbeing of Inupiat. Report Inupiat north slope Alaska University of Alaska: ScholarWorks@UA |
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Following a decade of intense wage employment activity, North Slope Inupiat continue to engage in subsistence activities. Two surveys conduced a decade apart are used to examine the role individual choice in the persistence of subsistence activities. Survey results document an increase in labor force participation, an increase in household income, and a decrease in household size. At the same time, the percentage of households on the North Slope obtaining over half their food from subsistence activities has increased. These are other finding suggest that continued subsistence activity is not simply a matter of necessity; it is also a matter of individual choice. Subsistence harvest and distribution activities may offer benefits well beyond nutrition that are less commonly available in wage jobs. Further research in this area may not only help explain in the persistence of subsistence activities, but also provide a link with research on the mental wellbeing of Inupiat. |
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Alaska Inupiat Subsistence and Wage Employement Patterns: Understanding Individual Choice |
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Human Organization, Vol. 50, No. 4, 1991, pp. 317-326 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/14413 Human Organization |
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