Adaptations and Transformations in Traditional Agricultural Rituals and Land Tenure on Flores, Eastern Indonesia

该项目涉及北方伊利诺伊大学的一位文化人类学家的研究，研究印度尼西亚的农业变化。 调查员将研究印度尼西亚东部土著社会的农业实践和仪式的变化。 有待检验的假设是，将联合收割机经济作物与现代技术和传统刀耕火种耕作相结合的村民，他们的农业仪式也会有所不同。 该项目将研究传统仪式是否将局限于传统的农业制度，或者是否将对其进行修改以适应当代的变化。 这项研究很重要，因为它促进了我们对世界这一重要地区农业变化的理解。 通过详细研究农民如何保留或修改传统仪式，使他们改变的农业实践具有意义，该项目将为规划者提供宝贵的信息，以鼓励采用新的高产粮食来源。

This project involves the research of a cultural anthropologist at Northern Illinois University, studying agricultural change in Indonesia. The investigator will study the changes in agricultural practices and rituals in an indigenous society in eastern Indonesia. The hypothesis to be tested is that the villagers, who combine cash-cropping with modern technologies with traditional swidden cultivation, will differentiate in their agricultural rituals as well. The project will see whether the traditional rituals will be restricted to the traditional agricultural regimes, or whether they will be modified to adapt to the contemporary varieties. This research is important because it advances our understanding of agricultural change in this important area of the world. By detailed study of how farmers retain or modify traditional rituals to give meaning to their changed agricultural practices, the project will provide valuable information for planners to use to encourage new adoptions of more high-yielding food sources.