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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.
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Subsistence Resource Specialist
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field Date
- ca.1990-1991
- Coverage Date
- 1870-1991
- Coverage Place
- Old Harbor, Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States
- Notes
- Craig Mishler and Rachel Mason
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269)
- LCCN
- 47033317
- LCSH
- Pacific Gulf Yupik Eskimos