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教授与墨西哥伊斯塔帕拉帕市自治大学的Ana Paula de Teresa教授的研究合作。调查人员打算解决农户如何在市场扩大所造成的不利条件下，不仅从生物学上，而且从经济和社会上进行自我繁殖的问题。在墨西哥瓦哈卡中央山谷收集的数据将允许对外部因素（如市场）对内部家庭结构和组织的影响进行历时性和共时性分析——这与察亚诺夫的模型相反，在该模型中，内部需求决定农民生产。数据包括家谱、工作和生育史，按时间顺序年份和家庭年龄汇总成矩阵。结果将显示消费者/工人比率、劳动分工、驱逐或保留家庭成员（通过结婚或移徙）、改变生产和生存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都有经验。这种培训将是这项研究的一个组成部分，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.