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Soundings 2014-04-18, N/A N/A
Fishlines, 2014, N/A N/A
Tidal Echoes 2014, Meghan Stangeland, Rebecca Salsman, Guy Unzicker, Emily Wall, Kevin Maier, Rod Landis, Sol Neely, Sara Minton, Carrie Enge, Annie Wedler, Ben Huff, Katie Spielberger, Jacqueline Boucher, Andrew Lounsbury
Tidal Echoes 2014, Meghan Stangeland, Rebecca Salsman, Guy Unzicker, Emily Wall, Kevin Maier, Rod Landis, Sol Neely, Sara Minton, Carrie Enge, Annie Wedler, Ben Huff, Katie Spielberger, Jacqueline Boucher, Andrew Lounsbury
Tidal Echoes
Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.
Soundings 2014-03-12, N/A N/A
Whalesong 2014-02-24, N/A N/A
Whalesong 2014-01-27, N/A N/A
Arctic Passages: Maternal Transport, IñUpiat Mothers And Northwest Alaska Communities In Transition, Lisa Llewellyn Schwarzburg
Arctic Passages: Maternal Transport, IñUpiat Mothers And Northwest Alaska Communities In Transition, Lisa Llewellyn Schwarzburg
Indigenous Studies
While the primary goal of the northwest Alaska Native village maternal transport program is safe deliveries for mothers from remote villages, little has been done to examine the impact of transport on the mothers and communities involved. I explore how present values (Western and Iñupiat cultural values) can influence the desire of indigenous women of differing eras and Northwest Alaska villages to participate in biomedical birth practices, largely as made available by a tribal health-sponsored patient transport system. The work that follows portrays the varying influences on these women and their communities as they determine the level of importance for …
Bride-Stealing: A Myth Of Misogyny, Seetha Murugesan
Bride-Stealing: A Myth Of Misogyny, Seetha Murugesan
Indigenous Studies
Bride-stealing, an explicit symbolic misogynistic action in The Iliad and The Kamba Ramayanam, is analyzed as a long-term patterned conduct of human behavior among the peoples who produced these works. The systematic pattern of bride stealing found in the epics discussed suggests that within these groups social constructs had always been in favor of female inferiority and subjugation. This places an emphasis on gender as an issue, manifested in the treatment of women by men as "others." The narrations of marginalization of women in the epics lead to a critique of the hypothesis that they are misogynistic. Here a framework …
Engaging Local Perspectives For Improved Conservation And Climate Change Adaptation, Corrine Noel Knapp
Engaging Local Perspectives For Improved Conservation And Climate Change Adaptation, Corrine Noel Knapp
Biological Sciences
Climate change is a global process that will impact local places in heterogeneous and unpredictable manners. This dissertation considers whose knowledge and observations could contribute to conservation and climate adaptation planning, how perceptions influence social-ecological feedbacks, and how science could be more relevant to decision-makers and local residents. In Chapter 2, I report on interviews (n=36) conducted with ranchers and recreation-based business owners in Colorado to understand their self-perceptions of resilience and vulnerability. I find that ranchers perceive more exposure and sensitivity to climate change and they also demonstrate more adaptive capacity than recreation businesses. In Chapter 3, I convey …
Ataam Taikina: Traditional Knowledge And Conservation Ethics In The Yukon River Delta, Alaska, Chad M. Cook
Ataam Taikina: Traditional Knowledge And Conservation Ethics In The Yukon River Delta, Alaska, Chad M. Cook
Arctic and Northern Studies
This research was conducted in collaboration with rural Yup'ik residents of the Yukon River delta region of Alaska. The thesis explores traditional knowledge and conservation ethics among rural Yup'ik residents who continue to maintain active subsistence lifestyles. From the end of July through August of 2012, ethnographic field research was conducted primarily through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, documenting Yup'ik subsistence hunting and fishing practices. Research participants invited me beluga whale hunting, seal hunting, moose hunting, commercial and subsistence fishing, gathering berries, and a variety of other activities that highlights local Yup'ik environmental knowledge, practices, and ethics. Through firsthand examples …
Soundings 2013-09-20, N/A N/A
2013 Year Three Self-Evaluation Report, The Office Of The Provost
2013 Year Three Self-Evaluation Report, The Office Of The Provost
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Integrating Climate Change With Human Land Use Patterns: Archaeology Of Butte Lake Northeast, Michael L. Wendt
Integrating Climate Change With Human Land Use Patterns: Archaeology Of Butte Lake Northeast, Michael L. Wendt
Anthropology
This research explores the effects of climate change throughout the Holocene by investigating a multi-component site at Butte Lake, Alaska. This research combines expectations generated from ethnographic models to evaluate site use conditioned by environmental constraints within the theoretical framework of human behavioral ecology. Analysis of lithic materials, faunal remains, and site structure are evaluated to determine site type by occupational component. The results of this research show that a period of low effective moisture during the early Holocene (9000 to 5000 cal BP), as well as a period of both low temperature and increased effective moisture associated with the …
Social Life And Ritual Practices In An Alaskan Pentecostal Community (The First Assembly Of God, Fairbanks), Nickole Kathren Robarge
Social Life And Ritual Practices In An Alaskan Pentecostal Community (The First Assembly Of God, Fairbanks), Nickole Kathren Robarge
Anthropology
This MA thesis research project focuses on the First Assembly of God Church in Fairbanks, Alaska. It seeks to better understand the implementation of Pentecostal-Charismatic (PC) Christianity in 21st century urban Alaska. While social activism and outreach form a significant portion of the success of Pentecostalism in Alaska (as anywhere else), my research shows that it is also substantially due to the appeal of ritual to newcomers. In particular, I suggest that there are forms of spiritual possession and spirit embodiment that need to be examined in relation to the attractiveness of Pentecostalism in Fairbanks. There is a gap in …
The Legacy Of Shamans? Structural And Cognitive Perspectives Of Prehistoric Symbolism In The Bering Strait Region, Feng Qu, 枫 曲
The Legacy Of Shamans? Structural And Cognitive Perspectives Of Prehistoric Symbolism In The Bering Strait Region, Feng Qu, 枫 曲
Anthropology
This research explores the meanings of prehistoric artistic artifacts discovered in the Bering Strait region. The research focuses on the prehistoric period between AD 100 and 1700, including Okvik culture, Old Bering Sea culture, Punuk Culture, Birnirk Culture, Thule culture, and Ipiutak Culture. My archaeological data in this research were collected from the archaeological collections of the Okvik site on Punuk Islands, the Kukulik site on St. Lawrence Island, and the Nukleet site at Cape Denbigh at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. Based on abundant ethnographic records from the Bering Strait region, this research relies on ethnographic …
Lithic Analysis At The Mead Site, Central Alaska, Allison A. Little
Lithic Analysis At The Mead Site, Central Alaska, Allison A. Little
Anthropology
The purpose of this study is to understand chipped stone technological behaviors at the Mead Site located in central Alaska. Lithics from each cultural occupation ranging in age from 11,460BP to 1420BP were analyzed and compared. Specific objectives include (1) characterization of variability in raw material and use for each cultural component, (2) description of lithic stages of reduction represented in each component, (3) description of the basic lithic industries represented. and (4) the identification and characterization of spatial organization and lithic behaviors. Results indicate (1) the tools and debris from Cultural Zone (CZ) lb and CZ2 show preferential use …
Social Benefits And Cultural Consequences Of Basketball In Alaska, Andreas Droulias
Social Benefits And Cultural Consequences Of Basketball In Alaska, Andreas Droulias
Anthropology
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the social and cultural significance of the game of basketball in the community of Nenana, Alaska. Since the building of high school gymnasiums across rural Alaska in the mid-1970s, basketball has become a popular and socially significant activity in rural Alaskan communities. The dissertation focuses on the nature of the social relations that arise from playing basketball and related activities and the constitution of a social space within which these relations become meaningful. It argues that the sport is a metaphor for community cohesiveness and ultimately a reflection of the social and cultural …
Becoming Adults In A Rural Yup'ik Community: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study Exploring Resilience, Tara J. Ford
Becoming Adults In A Rural Yup'ik Community: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study Exploring Resilience, Tara J. Ford
Psychology
The aim of this study is to explore strategies for navigating challenges in a rural Alaskan Yup'ik community among youth and young adults. This qualitative study captures a longitudinal perspective as youth (N=25; 11 -18 years old) were originally interviewed in January 2010. For the current study, participants were re-interviewed in December 2012. Follow-up interviews addressed life challenges over the past three years and resources that helped them with their hard times. To reinforce the multifaceted nature of growing-up in a rural Yup'ik community, scholarly literature along with observations, conversations with local residents, and local wisdom captured in anthropological work …
Chancellor's Report 2013-06, John Pugh
Soundings 2013-06-01, N/A N/A
Spatial Resilience And The Incorporation Of Traditional Ecological Knowledge In Mapping Sitka Herring, James W. Shewmake
Spatial Resilience And The Incorporation Of Traditional Ecological Knowledge In Mapping Sitka Herring, James W. Shewmake
Natural Resources
This project assesses the utility of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in conducting research on herring stocks within Sitka Sound. By considering ethnographic data of the marine environment it is possible to identify key spatial attributes associated with the resource. This information was used to construct a social-ecological systems model (SES) for analysis within a spatial resilience framework. From this SES model, resilience surrogates were identified to analyze effort and success within the fishery. These indicators provided valuable insight into how subsistence users relate to the marine environment when they participate in the harvesting of herring spawn. To collect TEK data, …
Understanding Institutional And Social Factors Relating To The Provisioning Of Water And Sanitation Services In Rural Alaska: Perspectives On Community Self-Reliance From Nine Native Villages Of Interior Alaska, Mercedes FáTima Ochante CáCeres
Understanding Institutional And Social Factors Relating To The Provisioning Of Water And Sanitation Services In Rural Alaska: Perspectives On Community Self-Reliance From Nine Native Villages Of Interior Alaska, Mercedes FáTima Ochante CáCeres
Arctic and Northern Studies
The global community acknowledges the essential nature of potable water and proper sanitation to the realization of human rights. Since 1959 federal, state and tribal efforts have focused on the goal of equitably providing these services to Alaska Native villages. However, demographic and geographical realities along with limited resources pose formidable challenges to achieving this lofty goal. This thesis explores the challenges to providing safe drinking water in remote Interior Alaska villages and their impact on self-reliance from the perspectives of knowledgeable village residents. Findings from a grounded theory analysis reveal that despite competence and concerted efforts to meet community …
Birthing Change: An Ethnographic Study Of The Alaska Family Health & Birth Center In Fairbanks, Alaska, Danielle M. Bennett
Birthing Change: An Ethnographic Study Of The Alaska Family Health & Birth Center In Fairbanks, Alaska, Danielle M. Bennett
Arctic and Northern Studies
This study examines the practices of the Alaska Family Health & Birth Center in order to understand how midwives help clients navigate the process of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period with a high rate of success, as defined by a low cesarean rate, low mortality and morbidity, and high maternal satisfaction. How do the midwives prepare mothers to navigate the transformation and how do they address failure to progress during birth? This study analyzes birth as a rite of passage, which incorporates a culture's worldview and its practices. These outcomes are achieved by employing a positive, holistic view of …
Soundings 2013-05-03, N/A N/A
Soundings 2013-04-19, N/A N/A
"This Is Who I Am": Perspectives On Economics, Policy, And Personal Identity And Culture Of Cook Inlet And Kenai River Salmon Fisheries, Hannah L. Harrison
"This Is Who I Am": Perspectives On Economics, Policy, And Personal Identity And Culture Of Cook Inlet And Kenai River Salmon Fisheries, Hannah L. Harrison
Indigenous Studies
Throughout this thesis, I use a multidisciplinary approach for understanding the sustainability of the culture, livelihoods, and ecosystems in the Cook Inlet and Kenai River salmon fisheries on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. In Chapter 1, I present a broad overview of the Cook Inlet region, its inhabitants, and the various stakeholder and user groups that access regional salmon fisheries. Chapter 1 also provides an overview of the methodology utilized in this research, as well as discuss the methods, the strengths, and weaknesses of the research as part of an evaluation of the study. In Chapter 2, I present an overview of …
Taphonomic Analysis Of Fish Remains From The Mink Island Site (Xmk-030): Implications For Zooarchaeological And Stable Isotopic Research, Holly J. Mckinney
Taphonomic Analysis Of Fish Remains From The Mink Island Site (Xmk-030): Implications For Zooarchaeological And Stable Isotopic Research, Holly J. Mckinney
Anthropology
This dissertation is focused on shedding the taphonomic overprint at the Mink Island site (XMK-030) to assess temporal variability of the fish bone assemblage and to establish sample selection criteria for stable isotope (delta15N, delta13C) analysis. These retrospective data may be used to identify the causes and consequences of long-term variability in local fish assemblages when combined with modern fisheries and paleo-oceanographic data. To use these data, it is essential to account for the effects of biostratinomic and diagenic agents. Intertaxa and inter-elemental differences in bone density, shape, size, protein, and lipid content result in differing preservation and contamination potential. …
Birch, Berries, And The Boreal Forest: Activities And Impacts Of Harvesting Non-Timber Forest Products In Interior Alaska, Kimberley Anne Maher
Birch, Berries, And The Boreal Forest: Activities And Impacts Of Harvesting Non-Timber Forest Products In Interior Alaska, Kimberley Anne Maher
Forest Sciences
Harvesting wild berries, firewood, and other non-timber forest products (NTFPs) from the boreal forest in Interior Alaska is a common activity amongst local residents. NTFPs are harvested for personal use, subsistence, and commercial purposes. While these activities contribute to informal household economies and livelihoods, harvest of NTFPs are not well documented in Alaska. Availability of these ecosystem services may be altered under changing management and climate regimes. This interdisciplinary dissertation takes a look at the activities and impacts of current NTFP harvesting practices. Survey results from a forest use survey provide insight into harvest activity in the Tanana Valley. Wild …
Developing Stable Isotope Biomarkers Of Yup'ik Traditional And Market Foods To Detect Associations With Chronic Disease Risk, Sarah H. Nash
Developing Stable Isotope Biomarkers Of Yup'ik Traditional And Market Foods To Detect Associations With Chronic Disease Risk, Sarah H. Nash
Biological Sciences
This dissertation addresses the need for valid measures of dietary intake for use in studies of chronic disease risk in the Yup'ik population of Southwest Alaska. The Yup'ik people have experienced dietary changes over the past century, as consumption of traditional foods has been increasingly supplemented or replaced by market-purchased foods. Determining whether this dietary change is associated with increases in chronic disease risk is important for making nutritional recommendations for disease prevention. However, monitoring dietary change is challenging, in part due to the limitations of self-reported methods of dietary assessment. Dietary biomarkers are promising alternatives to self-reported methods, because …
Fishlines, 2013, N/A N/A