Dissertation Research: Economics Behavior and Resource Use in Amazonian Peru

论文研究：秘鲁亚马逊流域的经济行为和资源利用

• 批准号: 9722857
• 负责人: Allen Johnson
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9722857&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Economics; Behavior; Resource

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from UCLA studying the changing patterns of resource consumption and land use among the Machiguenga Indians of the southeastern Peruvian Amazon. During the past 30 years missionaries, NGOs and government agents have sedentized and centralized the previously semi-nomadic subsistence-focused Machiguenga into small villages with increasing market integration. The student will draw upon theories from experimental economics to advance our understanding of the transmission and decision-making processes that produce socio-cultural change. Methodologically, the student will administer laboratory style tests aimed at gathering data on how the Indians reason and respond under various economic circumstances. This data will be comparable to data gathered from people in fully commercialized developed societies, such as the US. Second, through detailed ethnographic investigation, the student will explore current patterns of resource use and labor allocation with a focus on cultural transmission. This research is important because it will advance our understanding of how humans make economic decisions in diverse contexts. By systematically comparing how cultural patterns relate to individualized decision models as opposed to differential transmission of ideas in this relatively non-market, non-capitalist context, the project advance our understanding of the fundamentals of human economic behavior.

本项目涉及一名来自加州大学洛杉矶分校的人类学学生的论文研究，研究秘鲁亚马逊东南部的Machiguenga印第安人资源消耗和土地利用的变化模式。在过去的30年里，传教士、非政府组织和政府机构已经将以前半游牧的、以生存为中心的马基琴加人定居并集中到越来越一体化的小村庄。学生将借鉴实验经济学的理论，以促进我们对产生社会文化变革的传播和决策过程的理解。在方法上，学生将进行实验室式的测试，旨在收集有关印度人在各种经济环境下如何推理和反应的数据。这些数据将与从完全商业化的发达社会（如美国）收集的数据相媲美。其次，通过详细的民族志调查，学生将以文化传播为重点，探索当前资源使用和劳动力分配的模式。这项研究很重要，因为它将促进我们对人类如何在不同背景下做出经济决策的理解。通过系统地比较文化模式与个性化决策模型的关系，而不是在这种相对非市场、非资本主义背景下的思想差异传播，该项目促进了我们对人类经济行为基本原理的理解。