Hunting as a symbol of cultural tradition : the cultural meaning of subsistence activities in Gwich'in Athabascan society of northern Alaska
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Abstract
Gwich'in, especially males who are active hunters.These hunters explained that Gwich'in traditions include their lifestyle of hunting, trapping, fishing and gathering, and especially their bush skills which enable them to pursue this lifestyle.The purpose of this chapter is to show that, among modern Alaskan Gwich'in, traditional subsistence activities, especially hunting and its associated bush skills, have come to be important as a symbol of cultural tradition and as a source of cultural identity in opposition to the wider, majority society.Having examined some aspects of the behavior and utterances I was able to observe in Gwich'in communities, I will consider how Gwich'in hun{ing and gathering traditions relate to their politicallcultural situations and what meanings the people themselves give to these activities in the context of their modern lives.6The Gwich'in The Gwich'in and their territory The Gwich'in are one of the Northern Athabascan hunter-gatherer groups who speak dialects of the Gwich'in language, a member of the Northern Athabascan language family.They live on and around the flats of the Yukon and Mackenzie River systems of the Alaskan Interior (U.S.A.) and northern Canada.Thus, they live on both sides of the border between the U.S.A. and Canada, although their political status and social-cultural situations are different in Alaska and Canada.My main concern is with Gwich'in society and culture in Alaska.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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