International Postdoctoral Fellows Program: Rapid Change and the Production of Inequality in East Kwaio, Solomon Islands

9504555阿金 该奖项是根据国际初级研究员和博士后研究员计划，该计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用国外独特或互补的设施，专业知识和实验条件。该奖项的财政支持来自东亚太平洋计划。 该奖项将部分支持由大卫W.与所罗门群岛马莱塔东夸约的夸约文化中心组织者约翰·莱特·埃斯基一起工作。 这项研究是一项人类学研究，探讨在社会迅速变化的情况下，基于性别的不平等是如何产生和延续的。 PI将审查性别关系与所罗门群岛夸约人民信仰变化之间的关系。 夸约山是所罗门群岛上最后一个主要的非基督教群体，他们继续崇拜祖先的灵魂，执行严格的行为准则。 然而，Kwaio人一直在不断地重新解释和重塑他们的信仰，使其与不断变化的社会条件相适应。 阿金将测试和完善一个假设，以如何特定方面的这一变化正在发生。 这是一项关于人类能动性在社会转型过程中的作用的研究。 他将研究如何在信仰和实践的增量调整可能，随着时间的推移，产生重大的社会结构变化。***

9504555 Akin This award is under the International Junior Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellows Program, which enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. Financial support for this award is from the East Asia Pacific Program. This award will partially support a fifteen month postdoctoral research visit by David W. Akin to work with John Laete'esafi, Organizer of the Kwaio Cultural Centre in East Kwaio, Malaita, Solomon Islands. This research is an anthropological study of how genderbased inequality is being created and perpetuated in a situation of rapid social change. The PI will examine the relationship between gender relations and change in belief among the people of Kwaio in the Solomon Islands. The mountain Kwaio are the last major non-Christian group in the Solomon Islands, and they continue to worship spirits of their ancestors, that enforce a strict code of behavior. However, the Kwaio have been steadily reinterpreting and reshaping their beliefs to make them compatible with changing social conditions. Akin will test and refine a hypothesis as to how particular aspects of this chanee are taking place. This is a study of the role of human agency in processes of social transformation. He will investigate how incremental adjustments in belief and practice may, over time, produce significant socio-structural change. ***