DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Participation in Community-Based Timber Projects in Brazil

这篇论文是由一位文化人类学专业的学生进行的，研究的问题是人口、文化、经济和政治结构如何影响哪些社区成员参与巴西阿克里的木材开发项目。将研究两个涉及外来割胶工后代的项目。将评估各种项目活动的收益和成本，并研究个人选择在项目活动中的作用。将收集多种来源的数据，包括非正式访谈、观察、人口普查和正式报告。将测试将个人水平变量与项目参与联系起来的假设。这位学生和她的巴西同事将通过揭示导致社区成员参与项目的不同的结构关系来加深我们对参与式发展的理解，并将说明社会参与者如何通过他们的参与来解释、谈判、抵制和改变项目。通过研究个人参与和获取收益和成本的不同方式，这项研究将超越社区一级的衡量标准，并为规划者和当地发展组织提供重要的见解，以促进参与性木材管理。此外，该项目促进了我们对世界这一重要地区的了解，并有助于培养一位年轻的社会科学家。

This dissertation research by a cultural anthropology student asks how demographic, cultural, economic and political structures affect which community members participate in timber development projects in Acre, Brazil. Two projects involving the descendents of migrant rubber tappers will be studied. The benefits and costs of various project activities will be assessed, and the role of individual choice in the project activities will be studied. Multiple sources of data will be gathered, including informal interviews, observations, censuses, and formal reports. Hypotheses will be tested relating individual level variables to project participation. The student and her Brazilian colleagues will advance our understanding of participatory development by revealing the structural relations which give rise to variations in community members' participation in projects, and will illustrate how social actors interpret, negotiate, resist and transform projects through their involvement. By looking at the heterogeneous ways in which individuals participate and derive benefits and costs, the research will move beyond community -level measure and provide important insight to planners and local development organizations concerns with promoting participatory timber management. In addition the project advances our knowledge of this important region of the world, and contributes to the training of a young social scientist.