Dissertation Research: Market-linked Conservation in Neotropical Environments and Emergent Exchange Patterns among the Kayap?

巴西亚马逊地区历史上以文化和生物多样性而闻名，是巴西许多土著人民的家园，长期以来一直是一个有争议的景观。 其丰富的资源吸引了来自地球仪各地对资源开采和开采以及资源保护感兴趣的各种国际利益攸关方。 作为回应，土著社区越来越面临挑战，因为他们不平等地融入全球经济，不得不放弃对传统家园的地方控制。 本论文的研究由文化人类学家的方式，卡亚波，在巴西亚马逊河流域中部的土著人口，积极保持自己的独立性，同时参与一个复杂的和分散的世界市场体系的重点。Kayapo人通过各种社会和经济战略抵制了许多学者推测的全球化的必然结果。 本项目旨在通过对一个合作性可持续发展项目的历史、社会和政治发展进行人种学案例研究，探讨卡雅波人在谈判其在日益增长的全球体系中的作用时所使用的战略的原因和持久后果，该项目涉及卡雅波人和国际非政府组织（NGO）保护国际（CI）。 通过批判性地分析这一项目，因为它的展开，这项研究将评估可持续发展战略的复杂结果，这些战略已成为努力保持对土地和资源的控制的土著群体中普遍存在。 本研究将通过对参与这一保护倡议的行为者进行实地研究和对该项目历史背景的档案研究，详细调查该项目。该项目将利用传统环境知识、商品链和人类学对可持续发展理论的批评等理论，扩大科学工作的范围。 这些理论将是必要的批判性研究当代Kayapo创业。 这项研究的更广泛的影响是分析土著社区如何利用他们的家园，以促进土著权利，保护和抵抗战略在激烈的环境破坏的时间。 它也为试图合作保护生物和文化多样性的国家提供了一个重要的范例。该项目还促进了青年社会科学家的教育。

The Brazilian Amazon, a region historically renowned for cultural and biological diversity and home to many of Brazil's indigenous peoples, has long been a contested landscape. Its rich resources have attracted diverse international stakeholders from across the globe interested in resource extraction and exploitation, and in resource conservation. In response, indigenous communities are increasingly challenged to relinquish local control of their traditional homelands as they become unequally integrated into the global economy. This dissertation research by a cultural anthropologist focuses on the ways that the Kayapo, an indigenous population in Central Brazilian Amazon, have aggressively maintained their independence while simultaneously participating in a complex and fragmented world-market system. The Kayapo have resisted what many scholars have speculated as an inevitable outcome of globalization via a variety of social and economic strategies. This project seeks to explore the causes and enduring consequences of the strategies used by the Kayapo to negotiate their role in an increasing global system through an ethnographic case study of the historical, social, and political development of a cooperative sustainable development project, the mahogany seedling project, involving the Kayapo and the international non-governmental organization (NGO), Conservation International (CI). By critically analyzing this project as it unfolds, this research will evaluate the complex outcomes of sustainable development strategies which have become prevalent among indigenous groups struggling to maintain control over land and resources. The research will investigate this project in detail through field research among actors involved in this conservation initiative and archival research on the historical background of the project. This project will broaden the scope of scientific work by using theories of traditional environmental knowledge, commodity chains, and anthropological critiques of sustainable development theories. These theories will be necessary to critically investigate contemporary Kayapo entrepreneurship. The broader impacts of this research is the analysis of how indigenous communities can use their native homeland to promote indigenous rights, conservation, and resistance strategies during a time of intense environmental destruction. It also provides an important example for countries attempting cooperative conservation efforts to preserve biological and cultural diversity. The project also advances the education of a young social scientist.