DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Dynamics of Livestock Trade in Northern Kenya: Trust and Social Relations in Market Networks

论文研究：肯尼亚北部牲畜贸易的动态：市场网络中的信任和社会关系

• 批准号: 0003912
• 负责人: Peter Little
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-03-01 至 2002-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0003912&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; Dynamics; Livestock; Trade

0003912Little / MahmoudThis dissertation research examines social relations of livestock trade in northern Kenya. The project, by a cultural anthropologist from the University of Kentucky, explores how trust operates in the context of economic, environmental and other uncertainties. The role of differential information in trust relationships among traders of different ethnicity, in different types of market trade, and in different sorts of transactions will be studied. The study will focus on livestock markets and will collect both qualitative ethnographic (participant observation, in-depth interviews, case histories) and quantitative survey data of trader households to analyze the complex nature of trader relationships. Hypotheses relating differences in information, type of stock traded, ethnicity, and forms of relationship will be tested. The new data to be generated will advance the theory of personalized economic relationships, will increase our knowledge about this important region of the world, and will help train a young social scientist. The information will also be important for policy makers and planners of arid land and pastoral economic systems.

0003912利特尔/马哈茂德本论文研究肯尼亚北部牲畜贸易的社会关系。该项目由肯塔基大学的一位文化人类学家完成，探讨了信任是如何在经济、环境和其他不确定性的背景下运作的。不同种族的交易者之间的信任关系、不同类型的市场交易和不同类型的交易中，差异信息的作用将被研究。这项研究将侧重于牲畜市场，并将收集定性的人种学(参与者观察、深度访谈、案例记录)和贸易商家庭的定量调查数据，以分析贸易商关系的复杂性质。涉及信息、交易股票类型、种族和关系形式差异的假设将被测试。即将产生的新数据将推动个性化经济关系理论的发展，将增加我们对世界这一重要地区的了解，并将有助于培养年轻的社会科学家。这些信息对旱地和牧区经济系统的政策制定者和规划者也很重要。