Dissertation Research: Social Inequality and Africian Agrarian Change

本研究探讨了土地变迁与社会不平等之间的关系。它关注的是加纳东北部从自给自足生产到参与商品经济的转变对当地的影响，那里的劳动力迁移和市场农业是促成这种转变的主要因素。这个学生的背景很好。她已经发表了一些可发表的作品，并花了一些时间在加纳为这个研究项目做准备。她的论文研究应该会对当前的非洲农业危机产生有价值的见解，不仅人类学家感兴趣，而且那些关注第三世界国家农业发展的人也会感兴趣。

This study examines the relationship between agrarian change and social inequality. It is concerned with the local level effects of the shift from self-provisioning production to participation in the commodity economy in northeastern Ghana, where labor migration and market agriculture have been the major factors precipitating this kind of transformation. The student has an excellent background. She has already produced publishable work and has spent time in Ghana preparaing for this research project. Her dissertation research should result in valuable insights into the current African agrarian crises, of interest not only to anthropologists but to those concerned with agricultural development in Third World countries.