Social Relations and History of Farming in West Africa

该项目将记录布基纳法索农业的变化 上沃尔特，布基纳法索。 研究者将联合收割机结合人种学 实地考察与档案研究，以分析变化， 农业实践和社会关系中的殖民历史 需要该项目将研究 社会关系的转变， 农场管理和本地农业生产趋势， 建立有效的行政管理和扩大 市场。 工作组组成的变化、 工作工具的所有权模式， 将分析工人和任务。 在民族志 人类学研究人员将进行的部分研究 在一位民俗学家的协助下， 农作制度的变迁。 这项研究很重要，因为农业和 它们对社会关系的影响并没有得到很好的理解， 非洲，而变化是激进的。 了解 非洲过去的经验将有助于我们改进这一经验， 未来，并提供一个比较，将有助于我们 了解和改善农业在我们自己的社会关系 国家

This project will document the changes in farming in Burkina Faso, Upper Volta. The researcher will combine ethnographic fieldwork with archival research to analyze the changes over the colonial past in farming practices and the social relations entailed. The project will study the links between the transformation of social relations, modifications in the management of farms and production trends in local farming with the establishment of effective administration and the broadening of markets. Changes in the composition of work groups, the ownership patterns of work tools, and the gender pattern of workers and tasks will be analyzed. During the ethnographic portion of the research the anthropological researcher will be assisted by a folklorist who will study the oral narrative accounts of farming system changes. This research is important because changes in agriculture and their impact on social relations are not well understood in Africa, while the changes have been radical. Understanding the past African experience will help us improve that experience in the future as well as provide a comparison that will help us understand and improve the social relations of farming in our own country.