Dissertation Research: Processes of Economic and Social Change in Tanzania

该项目支持一名坦桑尼亚渔业地区文化人类学学生的论文研究。该项目将调查最近的经济发展项目如何影响妇女的作用和地位。这项研究将采用参与观察、有组织的面谈和档案检查等人种学方法，描述妇女参与渔业的性质，并试图了解最近的发展项目对妇女地位的影响。该学生凭借以往在非洲从事渔业发展项目的经验，为研究做好了充分准备。这项研究很重要，因为它将为有关发展对妇女的（有害）影响的文献增加一个案例研究，特别侧重于项目可以使妇女（及其所照顾的受抚养儿童）受益的方法。在渔业社区集中注意这一问题将为发展规划者提供有价值的资料，以避免过去的错误，即发展项目以男子的需要为重点，假定利益将直接流向妇女和儿童。

This project supports the dissertation research of a student of cultural anthropology in a fishing region of Tanzania. The project will investigate how recent projects of economic development have impacted the roles and status of women. Using ethnographic methodology of participant observation, structured interviews and examination of archives the study will describe the nature of women's involvement in the artesenal fishing industry and attempt to understand the impacts of recent development projects on the status of women. The student is well-prepared for the research by virtue of previous experiences in Africa on fishery development projects. This research is important because it will add a case study to the literature on the (detrimental) impact of development on women, with special focus on means by which projects can benefit women (and the dependent children they care for). Focusing on this issue in a fishing community will provide information of value to development planners, to avoid the mistakes of the past whereby development projects were keyed to the needs of men on the assumption that the benefits would flow directly to women and children.