The Family Farm in Buganda
The Family Farm in Buganda
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布干达的家庭农场
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-7660.1978.tb00770.x
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发表时间：
1978
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
G. A. Hughes
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文献类型：
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作者：
A. Robertson;G. A. Hughes
近年来，随着时间的推移，人们对个人和群体的社会和经济行为给予了相当大的关注。经济学家们把重点放在个人的生命周期上，分析年龄与收入、储蓄和财富等经济变量之间的联系(见Lydall 1955)。人类学家对家庭的发展周期特别感兴趣；他们注意到，家庭从来不是一个静止的人的安排，而是一个随着其成员生活的发展而其构成发生变化的群体。到目前为止，对这些周期性过程的分析一直相当狭隘地局限在经济学和人类学的兴趣范围内。对个人生命周期的经济分析集中在现代工业社会，很少有人注意到它在解释较贫穷国家的经济行为方面的可能价值。人类学家认识到家庭作为农村社会分析单位的重要性，但他们更感兴趣的是家庭相互关系的结构，而不是经济行为的细节。本文试图将这两个学科的方法更紧密地结合在一起，在人类学家对特定社会中的国内发展的解释中加入经济计量和分析的技术。从本质上讲，我们的论点是，在家庭发展的不同阶段，家庭实际上是一个不同的经济单位，对其资源提出独特的要求，并以特定的方式利用其不断变化的土地、劳动力和其他农业投入的天赋。我们希望表明，本文所基于的调查是在1%5-67年间在布干达进行的，这里现在时态的使用具体涉及到这一时期。作者非常感谢英国海外发展部资助了最初的研究和随后的统计分析。本文总结了作者与开发计划署马尔科姆·霍尔博士合作编写的一本书的论点。
In recent years considerable attention has been devoted to the social and economic behaviour of individuals and groups as they develop through time. Economists have focused on the life cycle of the individual, analysing the links between age and such economic variables as income, savings and wealth (see Lydall 1955). The developmental cycle of households has been of particular interest to anthropologists; they have noted that ‘the family’is never a static arrangement of persons, but is a group whose constitution changes as the lives of its members proceed. So far, analysis of these cyclical processes has been rather narrowly confined within the interests of economics and anthropology. Economic analysis of the individual life cycle has concentrated on modern industrial societies and little attention has been paid to its possible value in interpreting economic behaviour in poorer countries. Anthropologists have recognized the importance of the household as a unit of analysis in rural society, but they have been more interested in the structure of domestic interrelationships than in details of economic behaviour. This article attempts to bring the approaches of the two disciplines more closely together, adding techniques of economic measurement and analysis to the anthropologists’ interpretation of domestic development in a particular society. In essence, our argument is that at different stages of its development ‘the family’is in effect a different economic unit, making distinctive demands on its resources and using its changing endowments of land, labour and other agricultural inputs in particular ways. We hope to show that theThe surveys on which this article is based were carried out in Buganda in 1% 5-67, and the use here of the present tense relates specifically to that period. The authors are very grateful to the British Overseas Development Ministry for funding the initial studies and the subsequent statistical analysis. The article summarizes the argument of a book which the authors are preparing in collaboration with Dr Malcolm Hall of UNDP.