Phase 1: Buckland Family Networks Study

Project ID: J9W88030015

Federal Agency: National Park Service

Partner Institution: University of Alaska Anchorage

Fiscal Year: 2003

Initial Funding: $26,926

Total Funding: $26,926

Project Type: Research

Project Disciplines: Cultural

National Park: Alaska Region

Principal Investigator: Goldsmimth, Scott

Agreement Technical Representative: Mason, Rachel

Abstract: The Buckland Family Networks Project, Phase I, aims to document and analyze the interplay between subsistence activities and social networks in the Inupiaq community of Buckland, Alaska. This project, to be conducted in collaboration with the community and including partners ISER, ADF&G Division of Subsistence, and the Buckland IRA Council, combines intensive ethnographic research with two extended families with subsistence harvest survey administered to each household in the community. ISER will have primary responsibility for key informant interviews administered to each household in the community. ISER will have primary responsibility for key informant interviews and oral histories, while ADF&G will take the lead in conducting subsistence harvest surveys. ISER staff will clean and prepare the survey data for analysis. A more extensive analysis of social networks, based on data collected in Phase I, will be completed in Phase II.