Inuit Subsistence, Social Economy and Food Security in Clyde River, Nunavut

摘要: This paper examines the flow of money and country food resources within an Inuit extended family ( ilagiit ) in Clyde River, Nunavut, to understand effects a mixed wage-income hunting economy on customary resource sharing security. Over 12-week period 2009, data were gathered through participant observation bi-weekly recall interviews with 10 households community. The findings are compared collected 1999 from same group. Results indicate that sharing, especially for food, continues follow traditional kinship patterns retains considerable importance group’s aggregated “income.” Further, imported foods shared, but what appears be ad hoc basis, while control rest individuals. Overall, differences between cash income, seen terms fishing equipment, more apparent 2009 than 1999, this inequality is moderated by shared use among close kin large items like freighter canoes outboard motors. At time, social relations critically buffer subsistence disparities lower- higher-income culturally prescribed ways. Our study socioeconomic dynamics Arctic community particularly valuable informing relevant understanding security, given significant recent interest research area.