Dissertation Research: Testing Theories of Collective Action in Micronesia

本项目涉及新墨西哥大学一名人类学学生的论文研究。该项目包括在密克罗尼西亚的一个小规模社会中测试关于合作工作的假设。学生假设，在合作劳动的情况下，当他们需要他人的未来合作时，人们会更多地工作，给予更多的互惠礼物，并更多地照顾同事的孩子。使用定量和定性的民族志方法，学生将测量工人在捕鱼和蔬菜收获中的劳动投入，以及各种产量和分享的措施来检验这些假设。这将用于推进关于小群体狩猎采集的进化理论。这项研究是有价值的，因为它将增加美国在世界这一重要领域训练有素的科学人力，并将增加我们对小型社会中合作工作的原因和后果的基本知识。

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of New Mexico. The project involves testing hypotheses about cooperative work in a small-scale society in Micronesia. The student hypotheses that people will work more, give more reciprocal gifts, and attend to the children of co-workers more in situations of cooperative labor when they require the future cooperation of others Using quantitative and qualitative ethnographic methods the student will measure the labor input of workers in fishing and vegetable harvesting as well as various measures of yields and sharing to test these hypotheses, which will be used to advance evolutionary theory about hunter-gathers in small bands. This research is valuable because it will add to the trained scientific manpower of the US in this important area of the world, and will add to our basic knowledge of the causes and consequences of cooperative work in small societies.