U.S.-Mexico Collaborative Research: Peasant Economy and Household Units: Dynamics Structure and Reproduction in theValley of Oaxaca

该奖项将支持贝勒大学的Martha Rees教授与墨西哥大都会自治大学的Ana Paula de Teresa教授进行研究合作。调查人员打算在市场扩大造成不利条件的事实下，解决农户如何不仅在生物上，而且在经济和社会上如何繁衍自己的问题。在墨西哥瓦哈卡中央山谷收集的数据将允许对外部因素(例如市场)对内部家庭结构和组织的影响进行历时和同步分析--这与查亚诺夫的内部需求决定农民生产的模型相反。数据包括家谱、工作和生育史，按时间年份和家庭年龄以矩阵形式汇总。结果将显示消费者/工人比例、劳动分工、(通过婚姻或移民)驱逐或保留家庭成员、改变生产和生计活动以及人口行为的变化。合作者在人类学研究生和本科生的实地培训方面有经验。这种培训将是这项研究的组成部分，因为大部分数据收集和分析将由墨西哥和美国的研究生和本科生进行。

This award will support Professor Martha Rees of Baylor University in a research collaboration with Professor Ana Paula de Teresa of the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana de Iztapalapa, Mexico. The investigators intend to address the issue of how do peasant households reproduce themselves, not only biologically, but economically and socially as well, in the fact of adverse conditions posed by the expansion of the market. Data collected in the Central Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico will permit a diachronic and a synchronic analysis of the effect of external factors (e.g., market) on internal household structure and organization--the reverse of Chayanov's model in which internal needs determine peasant production. Data include genealogies and work and reproductive histories to be summed in matrices by chronological year and household age. Results will show changes in consumer/ worker ratio, division of labor, expulsion or retention of household members (via marriage or migration), changing productive and subsistence activities, and demographic behavior. The collaborators have experience with the field training of graduate and undergraduate students in Anthropology. Such training will be an integral part of this research as much of the data collecting and analysis will be performed by graduate and undergraduate students in Mexico and the United States.