Agrarian Change in Southeastern Mexico

在这个项目中，斯坦福大学的人类学家科利尔博士将完成对墨西哥东南部高地玛雅人分层的纵向研究。在20世纪70年代石油驱动的发展热潮和80年代的经济危机期间，该地区发生了巨大变化。在经济繁荣时期，研究对象是Zinacantan的印第安人，他们从世纪中叶种植玉米的农民转变为更复杂的职业，包括工资工作、运输和商业，以及使用化肥和杀虫剂的农业。通过民族志方法、访谈和对家庭和生产预算的系统记录，该项目将记录萨纳坎特科生产的变化以及婚姻模式和仪式办公系统中相关的社会文化变化。这项研究将阐明农民在墨西哥最近的资本主义农业发展中的作用，并将为目前关于高地玛雅文化和社会组织性质的思考提供重要的替代方案。这一领域之前的大多数研究都没有分析印度人与更大的经济和政治关系的政治经济学，因此科利尔博士的研究将为大量研究增加一个有价值的维度。

In this project Dr. Collier, an anthropologist at Stanford University, will complete longitudinal research on stratification among the Highland Maya of southeastern Mexico. The region has changed dramatically during the 1970's oil-driven development boom and the 1980's economic crisis. During the boom the study population, Indians of Zinacantan, shifted out of mid-century occupations as peasant corn farmers into a more complex mix of wage-work, transport and commerce, and agriculture using chemical fertilizer and pesticides. Using ethnographic methods, interviews and systematic records of household and production budgets, the project will document changes in Zanacanteco production and allied socio-cultural changes in marriage patterns and the ritual office system. This research will illuminate the role of peasantries in recent capitalist agrarian development in Mexico and will offer important alternatives to current thinking about the nature of highland Maya culture and social organization. Most previous studies in this area did not analyze the political economy of the Indian's relations with the larger economy and polity, thus Dr. Collier's research will add a valuable dimension to a large corpus of studies.