Dissertation Research: Economic Development of a Post-Soviet Society

9816385 Winterhalder/Crate该项目涉及北卡罗来纳州大学人类学学生的论文研究，他将研究生活在西伯利亚的农牧社会如何适应后苏联的经济和社会现实。 在被迫进入集体化生产系统之后，他们现在可以自由地发展自己的生存方式。 使用一个4,000萨哈人的村庄的老年人的样本的综合生活史，档案研究苏联控制的历史，时间分配和随机现场观察，访谈，参与者观察和抽样调查的民族志方法，学生将试图了解这个社会是如何适应苏联限制的放松和新的发展机会的开放。她将看到人们是否适应传统主义者，复兴主义者或前瞻性的方向，以及他们是否在集体经历后采取小农生存模式。 在项目的最后两个月里，她的理解将通过在其他村庄的调查得到检验和完善。这项研究将促进我们对世界这一重要地区的了解，并有助于培养一名年轻的社会科学家。

9816385Winterhalder / CrateThis project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of North Carolina who will study how a society of agro-pastoralists living in Siberia is adjusting to a post-Soviet Union economic and social reality. After being forced into collectivized production systems, they are now free to develop their own mode of subsistence. Using ethnographic methods of comprehensive life histories of a sample of elders of a village of 4,000 Sakha people, archival research into the history of Soviet control, time allocation and random spot observation, interviews, participant observation and sample surveys, the student will try to understand how this society is adapting to the loosening of Soviet constraints and the opening of new opportunities for development. She will see whether people adapt a traditionalist, revivalist, or forward-looking orientation, and whether they adopt a small-holder model of subsistence after their collective experience. Her understanding will be tested and refined by surveys in other villages in the last two months of the project. This research will advance our knowledge of this important region of the world as well as contribute to the training of a young social scientist.