Research finds sharing, cooperation key to Arctic villages

(University of Alaska Fairbanks) New analytical methods were used to look at subsistence research data from three Arctic communities. The analysis looked at the effects of removing particular households, crews, social connections or resources from the communities' subsistence systems. The analysis found that 'the principal challenge to the robustness of such communities is the loss of key households and the erosion of cultural ties linked to sharing and cooperative social relations rather than resource depletion.'

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