Dissertation Research: Social Processes and Political Tranformation in Belau

贝劳是美国在密克罗尼西亚西部的托管机构。二战后，随着美国的政治控制，这个社会发生了变化，尤其受到了美国核军备政策的影响。这项拟议的研究将分析贝劳人民对美国政策变化的反应。它将特别侧重于妇女的政治参与，以及妇女如何描述她们生活中发生的变化。对于人类学来说，这个项目是越来越多的人种学研究的一部分，这些研究试图从全球背景的角度分析社会的变化。它具有方法论意义，因为它将社会历史与人类学田野技术结合起来。它将提供有关南太平洋岛屿的迫切需要的信息，这些岛屿的核企业已经影响了当地人民的环境。这项研究将试图为社会科学家理解有关国际核武器的辩论开辟一条新的途径。通过了解个人和社会团体如何应对核战争的威胁，以及他们如何应对不断变化的政治政策，这个项目将帮助我们了解国际核背景下的社会进程。

Belau is a U.S. Trusteeship in western Micronesia. The society has changed in response to U.S. political control after World War II, and has been especially affected by U.S. policy on nuclear armament. The proposed research will analyze the response of the people of Belau to changing U.S. policy. It will focus especially on the political participation of women and on how women characterize the transformations that have taken place in their lives. For anthropology, this project is part of a growing body of ethnographic research that attempts to analyze changes in societies in terms of global context. It has methodological significance in that it will combine social history with anthropological field techniques. It will provide much needed information on South Pacific Islands where nuclear enterprises have affected local people's environments. This research will try to develop a new way for social scientists to understand the debate on international nuclear arms. By understanding how individuals and social groups come to grip with the threat of nuclear warfare and how they respond to changing political policy, this project will help us understand social processes within the international nuclear context.