Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Promissory Prestations. A Yucatec Village between Ritual Gifts and Development Cash Transfers

约翰霍普金斯大学的博士生安德烈斯·达普兹将在简·I·古耶博士的指导下，研究农业再生的传统仪式礼物与旨在产生社会和经济变化的发展项目直接现金转移之间的关系。这位研究人员将专注于PROCAMPO(农业直接援助计划)，该计划15年来一直在为墨西哥农民提供资金，以稳定北美自由贸易协定(NAFTA)后的收入。PROCAMPO现金转移和基于日历的田地祭祀，每一种都会引发关于规划、未来和利润的不同但相互关联的想法。研究人员将调查这些不同的时间性在性质上是如何不同的，是如何交织在一起的，并影响PROCAMPO计划的实施。这项研究将在华盛顿特区的美洲开发银行、墨西哥城的政府办公室和墨西哥尤卡坦的一个土著村庄进行。Dapuez将采用社会科学方法的混合，包括深度采访、官方文件的内容分析和现场观察。总体目标是构建一个民族志描述和分析PROCAMPO计划如何发展和传播对未来的宗教和世俗态度，以及这些概念如何与被称为货运系统的复杂的政治-精神生活日历相互联系。这项研究既及时又重要。它将阐明土著农学家和发展工作人员如何预测墨西哥农村部门的未来。经过15年多的运营，PROCAMPO已经融入了农民的日常生活。目前，PROCAMPO的未来正在评估中，PROCAMPO是一项过渡性计划，旨在支持墨西哥农业部门纳入北美自由贸易协定。除了更新送礼的社会科学理论外，这项研究还将具有实际应用，有助于理解PROCAMPO如何以及为什么成功或没有成功。这项研究还将有助于社会科学家的教育。

Johns Hopkins University doctoral student Andres Dapuez, with the guidance of Dr. Jane I. Guyer, will conduct research on the relationship between traditional ritual gifting for agricultural regeneration and development program direct cash transfers intended to produce social and economic change. The researcher will focus on PROCAMPO (Program for Direct Assistance in Agriculture), which for fifteen years has been giving money to Mexican farmers to stabilize incomes in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). PROCAMPO cash transfers and calendar-based ritual offerings to fields each invoke different but interrelated ideas about planning, the future, and profits. The researcher will investigate how these contrasting temporalities differ qualitatively, are intertwined, and affect the implementation of the PROCAMPO program. The research will be conducted at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., in government offices in Mexico City, and in an indigenous village of Yucatan, Mexico. Dapuez will employ a mix of social scientific methods, including in-depth interviews, content analysis of official documents, and in situ observations. The overall goal is to construct an ethnographic description and analysis of how the PROCAMPO program develops and communicates religious and secular attitudes toward the future, and, how these concepts interconnect with the complex calendrics of politico-spiritual life known as the cargo system.This research is both timely and important. It will shed light on how indigenous agriculturalists and development functionaries prefigure the future of the rural sector of Mexico. After more than fifteen years in operation, PROCAMPO has been integrated into peasants' everyday life. Currently, the future of PROCAMPO, begun as a transitional program to support the Mexican agricultural sector's incorporation into NAFTA, is being evaluated. In addition to updating social science theory of gift giving, the resesarch will have the practical application of helping to understand how and why PROCAMPO has or has not been successful. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.