Dissertation Research: Russian Orthodoxy, Religious Syncretism, and Ethnic Identity among the Alutiit of the Kenai Peninsula

University Of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks AK

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ABSTRACT ARC 0528564 This award supports dissertation ethnographic research on Russian Orthodoxy and ethic and cultural identity among the Alutiiq on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The research will examine social and cultural processes of religious syncretism and their role in articulating ethnic identity. Based on extended ethnographic fieldwork, the research will shed light on how local Orthodoxy and its associated symbols mediate group and individual identity.