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Rural Alaska: The Struggle for Subsistence

Author(s) -

DiNovelliLang Danielle,

Hébert Karen

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal for the anthropology of north america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2475-5389

DOI - 10.1002/nad.12114

Subject(s) - compromise , ambivalence , subsistence agriculture , negotiation , politics , rural area , bureaucracy , character (mathematics) , political science , sociology , geography , archaeology , agriculture , law , psychology , social psychology , geometry , mathematics

“Rural” in Alaska does not mean the countryside. It is instead a bureaucratic category that both invokes and undercuts the Alaska Native territory that it has, as a result of political compromise, come to represent. As such, it has been a site of intense turmoil and negotiation since the 1970s. In this essay, we zoom in on a rural location marked by struggles to define and shape the character of the rural; in so doing, we explore the tensions embedded in this ambivalent concept.

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