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A demographic study of Karluk, Kodiak Island, Alaska, 1962-1964
Arctic anthropology • 3 (2) • Published In 1966 • Pages: 211-240
By: Taylor, Kenneth I..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Combining information from family histories, pregnancy records, and histories of the population structure, with an analysis of the economy, religion, and marriage and kinship patterns, Taylor attempts to explain the present demographic structure of a small Kodiak village, Karluk. While fertility rates are extremely high, and overall mortality is not especially high, the population has continued to decline since the early 1920's or 1930's. This decline, plus a statistically significant imbalance in the sex ratio, 90 males to 58 females, seems to be due principally to lack of economic opportunity in the village (salmon fishing from June to August is the only full-time employment). Emigration is higher for women who often marry Whites and move away or who can get jobs in the canneries in Kodiak town. Marriage patterns which tend to encourage migration around the island in order to obey religiously defined rules of exogamy also cause instability in the small population. Taylor is explicit in describing his analytical methods. A complete geneaoogy of the village is presented in an appendix.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Composition of population
- Birth statistics
- Mortality
- Internal migration
- Conception
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Alutiiq
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physical Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- summers, 1962-1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1860s-1964
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Karluk village, Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kenneth I. Taylor
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-239)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 78000711
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koniagmiut Eskimos