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dc.contributor.authorMartin, Stephanie
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-12T22:30:17Z
dc.date.available2014-06-12T22:30:17Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationStephanie Martin. 2012. "The importance of culture and community for well-being," Journal of Rural and Community Development Special Issue (Volume 7, No. 1): Human services and remote Indigenous communities: making room for diversity and change. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1712-8277
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/3960
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes a household survey of Inuit in northern Alaska and how the survey data were used to better understand the relative importance of jobs, wild food harvesting, and social ties for life satisfaction. It emphasizes the importance of non-material measures for life satisfaction. It builds on other research showing the importance of harvesting wild food and the persistence of a mixed economy—one that combines cash income and wild food harvests. An empirical model estimates the relationship between people's choices to work, and/or hunt and fish, and individual satisfaction with life. The model includes economic and non-economic measures of well-being as well as community characteristics and shows that what matters most for satisfaction are family ties, social support and opportunities to do things with other people. Jobs, income, housing, and modern amenities—are less important among arctic Inuit. This research addresses the purpose for the original survey project—to give a more realistic picture of life in the Arctic by showing why people who live in remote, isolated, communities, with low incomes, and substandard housing are very satisfied with their lives. It also contributes to public policy in remote regions and efforts to understand how people are adapting in a rapidly changing environment.en_US
dc.description.tableofcontentsAbstract / Introduction / Methods / Data / Modeling Subsistence, Jobs, and Well-Being / Conclusions / Referencesen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherRural Development Institute, Brandon University.en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://www.jrcd.ca/viewarticle.php?id=795&layout=abstract
dc.sourceJournal of Rural and Community Developmenten_US
dc.subjectAlaska Nativesen_US
dc.subjectsubsistenceen_US
dc.subjectwell-beingen_US
dc.subject.lcshAlaska Nativesen_US
dc.subject.lcshSubsistence economy -- Alaskaen_US
dc.titleCultural Continuity and Communities and Well-Beingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
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