Dissertation Improvement Grant: Gender and Social Power among the Napo Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon

论文改进补助金：厄瓜多尔亚马逊纳波鲁纳人的性别和社会权力

• 批准号: 0650391
• 负责人: John Bodley
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-02-15 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0650391&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Gender; Social

Graduate student Kerensa L. Allison, supervised by Dr. John H. Bodley, will study the influence of concentrated economic wealth on gender roles, perceptions, and control over household resources in a small-scale agricultural community in Napo Province, Ecuador. Methods are designed to assess how wealth is perceived and distributed in order to compare resource concentration and social and gender stratification within and among households. This study is important because as small-scale indigenous communities become more incorporated into the national socioeconomic system, men seem to benefit more from national development policies and job opportunities. Much research suggests this is a natural and inevitable decline in economic and social status for women leading to unequal access to resources. In societies where resource management decisions have been traditionally complementary between men and women within the household and collaborative within the community, concentrations of economic wealth may result in fewer people making the majority of resource management decisions, decreases in household innovation, breakdowns in community social networks, and loss of traditional ecological knowledge. These changes may collectively make the socio-ecological system less resilient. The researcher will use both quantitative and qualitative data to explore existing and developing concentrations of economic wealth, which may influence resource management decisions and traditional gender relations at the household and community level. She will conduct a community wealth census, do participant observation, determine variability in ecological and agricultural knowledge, have adults keep work diaries to determine time allocation, and employ cognitive research techniques such as free listing and pile sorts. This research contributes to the growing body of knowledge addressing socio-cultural change in indigenous communities in relation to market-integration and socio-economic stratification with specific emphasis on gender influences and power. This has important implications for indigenous resource management decision-makers in this region and the wider international community interested in sustainable resource management and the preservation of biodiversity. The research also will contribute significantly to the education of a graduate student.

研究生 Kerensa L. Allison 在 John H. Bodley 博士的指导下，将研究厄瓜多尔纳波省一个小规模农业社区中经济财富集中对性别角色、观念和家庭资源控制的影响。 旨在评估如何看待和分配财富的方法，以便比较家庭内部和家庭之间的资源集中度以及社会和性别分层。这项研究很重要，因为随着小规模土著社区更多地融入国家社会经济体系，男性似乎从国家发展政策和就业机会中受益更多。 许多研究表明，这是女性经济和社会地位自然且不可避免的下降，导致获得资源的机会不平等。在传统上，资源管理决策在家庭内男女之间互补并在社区内协作的社会中，经济财富的集中可能会导致更少的人做出大部分资源管理决策，家庭创新减少，社区社交网络崩溃以及传统生态知识的丧失。 这些变化可能共同降低社会生态系统的弹性。 研究人员将使用定量和定性数据来探索现有和正在发展的经济财富集中度，这可能会影响家庭和社区层面的资源管理决策和传统性别关系。 她将进行社区财富普查，进行参与观察，确定生态和农业知识的变异性，让成年人记工作日记来确定时间分配，并采用认知研究技术，例如自由列表和堆排序。 这项研究有助于不断增长的知识体系，解决土著社区与市场一体化和社会经济分层相关的社会文化变革，特别强调性别影响和权力。这对该地区的本土资源管理决策者以及对可持续资源管理和保护生物多样性感兴趣的更广泛的国际社会具有重要影响。 该研究还将对研究生的教育做出重大贡献。