Social Relations and History of Farming in West Africa

西非的社会关系和农业历史

• 批准号: 8815676
• 负责人: Mahir Saul
• 金额: $ 10.38万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-01-15 至 1991-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8815676&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Social; Relations; History; Farming; West

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.

该项目将记录布基纳法索上沃尔特农业的变化。 研究人员将把民族志田野调查与档案研究结合起来，分析殖民时期农业实践的变化以及随之而来的社会关系。该项目将研究社会关系的转变、农场管理的改变以及当地农业生产趋势与建立有效管理和扩大市场之间的联系。 将分析工作组的构成、工作工具的所有权模式以及工人和任务的性别模式的变化。 在研究的民族志部分，人类学研究员将得到民俗学家的协助，民俗学家将研究农业系统变化的口头叙述。 这项研究很重要，因为非洲的农业变化及其对社会关系的影响尚未得到充分了解，而这些变化却是彻底的。 了解非洲过去的经验将有助于我们在未来改进这一经验，并提供比较，这将有助于我们理解和改善我们自己国家的农业社会关系。