Dissertation Research: Economic Development of a Post-Soviet Society

这个项目涉及北卡罗来纳大学人类学专业的一名学生的论文研究，他将研究生活在西伯利亚的农牧民社会如何适应苏联解体后的经济和社会现实。在被迫进入集团化生产体系后，他们现在可以自由地发展自己的生存方式。学生将使用人种志方法，对一个4000名萨哈人的村庄的长老进行全面的生活史抽样，对苏联控制史的档案研究，时间分配和随机现场观察，访谈，参与者观察和抽样调查，试图了解这个社会是如何适应苏联放松限制和新的发展机会的。她将看到人们是否适应了传统主义、复兴主义或前瞻性的取向，以及他们在集体经历后是否采用了小业主生存模式。她的理解将在项目的最后两个月通过对其他村庄的调查来检验和完善。这项研究将增进我们对世界这一重要区域的了解，并有助于培养一位年轻的社会科学家。

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.