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    Honda country: relocalization through technology in Nanwalek Alaska

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    DeHass, David
    Chair
    Nakazawa, Anthony
    Koskey, Michael
    Committee
    Gerlach, Craig
    Pullar, Gordon
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4800
    Abstract
    It should not be assumed that the introduction of a new technology automatically wipes out past cultural practices. Instead, it is often the case that these offerings are integrated into a current routine. For the Sugpiat of Nanwalek, Alaska, there is a constant need to negotiate between what to change and what to preserve. My research explores how a cultural group judges a new technology based upon shared boundaries and understandings. I examine how the decision to accept all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) has allowed for increased participation in subsistence practices, effective resource management, and material and emotional reunification with those things that went before. Many of the activities and "places that count" are no longer merely fragments of memory for many in the village; rather, they are physical and contemporary in their importance. In my dissertation, I define relocalization and demonstrate how relocalization was made possible through purposeful decision-making and adaptive traditions and did not simply occur because of the existence of ATVs and their random internalization.
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    Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2014
    Table of Contents
    Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Research Questions -- 1.2 The Place -- 1.2.1 Subsistence -- 1.2.2 Trails -- 1.3 The People -- 1.3.1 Makari's Chugach Story -- 1.4 Brief Historical Overview -- 1.4.1 Early Contact Period -- 1.4.2 Nanwalek's Russian Ancestors -- 1.4.3 The Sale of Alaska -- 1.4.4 Fur Trading and the Alaska Commercial Company -- 1.4.5 Walter Meganack's Port Graham Settlement Story -- 1.4.6 Herman Moonin's Epidemic Story -- 1.4.7 Self-governance and BIA Influence -- 1.4.8 The Alaska Native Settlement Act -- 1.4.9 The Exxon Valdez -- 1.4.10 Nanwalek Today -- 1.5 Introduction to Remaining Chapters -- Chapter 2: Research Methods and Issues -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 My Coming to Nanwalek Story -- 2.3 Research Notions -- 2.4 Research Genesis -- 2.5 Introduction of Research Design -- 2.6 Coordinating Outsider Techniques with Insider Perspectives -- 2.7 Local Relevance -- 2.7.1 Communication on the Local Level -- 2.7.2 How My Honda went Hunting Story -- 2.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Use and Maintenance of ATVs -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Honda Usage and Tradition -- 3.3 Hondas and Nanwalek -- 3.4 Hondas as Indicators of Status -- 3.5 Eric Kvasnikoff's Story -- 3.6 Everyday Honda Realities in Nanwalek -- 3.7 Conclusions -- Chapter 4: ATVs and Related Health Issues -- 4.1 Mobility and Modes of Transportation -- 4.2 Chronic Health Issues -- 4.3 Preventable Health Issues -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: From Delocalization to Relocalization -- 5.1 Adaptive Range -- 5.2 Ethnic Identity -- 5.3 Community Membership -- 5.4 Delocalization and its Principles -- 5.5 From Sámi to Sugpiaq -- Chapter 6: Discussion and Summary -- 6.1 Decision Making and Relocalization -- 6.1.1 Woodstove Story -- 6.2 Relocalizing the Notion of Sustainability -- 6.3 Relocalization through Adaptation -- 6.4 Relocalization of the Places that Count -- 6.5 Summary -- References -- Appendix.
    Date
    2014-12
    Type
    Dissertation
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