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Alutiiq vikings: kinship and fishing in Old Harbor, Alaska
Human organization • 55 (3) • Published In 1996 • Pages: 263-278
By: Mishler, Craig, Mason, Rachel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The community of Old Harbor on Kodiak Island is populated mainly by Autiiq Natives and by descendants of male Scandinavian immigrants who married Alutiiq women. Sandinavian and Alutiiq intermarriage during the last one hundred years has produced a new creolized social class, but this new class is maintained by an aboriginal Alutiiq social structure built upon hierarchy and rank. Looking at Alutiiq kinship terminology allows us to map the complex network of relationships between fishing captains and between fishing captains and crews. It is within the framework of Alutiiq kinship and the Scandinavian work ethic that Old Harbor residents of Scandinavian descent have attained a high level of material prosperity that is invisible in neighboring Alutiiq communities where such intermarriage has not occurred (p. 263).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Marine industries
- Competition
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Classes
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Parents-in-law and children-in-law
- Rule of descent
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Subsistence Resource Specialist
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca.1990-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1870-1991
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Old Harbor, Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Craig Mishler and Rachel Mason
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47033317
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pacific Gulf Yupik Eskimos