Economic Development and Social Differentiation in a FarmingCommunity

在这个项目中，这位来自亚利桑那州立大学的文化人类学家将完成对菲律宾一个山地农业社区的土地分配、收入模式、生活水平、社会地位和政治参与的研究。目前这项研究的数据将与1970-72年收集的信息进行比较。该区域更广泛的发展变化进程将与这一时期的当地变化有关。该项目将阐明东南亚农民社区在资本主义市场条件下的发展轨迹，特别侧重于社会、经济和政治分化加剧是发展的结果的条件。这项研究将帮助我们理解这种社会差异有时会在资本主义农民和农场工人之间造成两极分化，有时会创造出持久的、经济上可行的多策略农场家庭。在我们对发展中世界冲突起因的一般理解中，这只是一小部分。

In this project the researcher, a cultural anthropologist from Arizona State University, will complete research analyzing land distribution, income patterns, living standards, social status and political participation in an upland Philippine farming community. Data from this current study will be compared with information gathered in 1970-72. Wider processes of developmental change in the region will be related to local changes over this period of time. The project will clarify the developmental trajectories that Southeast Asian peasant communities travel under capitalist market conditions, with a particular focus upon conditions under which increasing social, economic and political differentiation is the outcome of development. This research will help us understand how such social differences sometimes create polarization between capitalist farmers and farm workers, and sometimes creates durable economically viable multi-strategy farm households. It is a small part in our general understanding of the causes of conflict in the developing world.